Luster
About this book
"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
- adopted children
- african americans, fiction
- african american women artists
- american literature
- archivists
- artists, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, african american & black, women
- fiction / african american / women
- fiction / literary
- fiction / women
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2020-08-23
- sexual behavior
- triangles (interpersonal relations)
- women forensic pathologists
- young women
- young women, fiction