Title: Luster /
Authors: Leilani, Raven
Year: 2020
Subjects: African American women artists Fiction.; Young women Sexual behavior United States Fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction; Adopted children Fiction; Archivists Fiction.; Women forensic pathologists Fiction.; FICTION / Literary.; FICTION / Women.; FICTION / African American / Women.; Adopted children; African American women artists; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Young women Sexual behavior; United States
Abstract: "Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules.  As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric's home--though not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows. Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life--her hunger, her anger--in a tumultuous era. It is also a description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way."--Provided by publisher.