Title: Luster
Description: "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.
Subjects: American literature, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2020-08-23, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, African americans, fiction, Artists, fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, african american & black, women, African American women artists, Fiction, Young women, Sexual behavior, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Adopted children, Archivists, Women forensic pathologists, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Women, FICTION / African American / Women