{"product_id":"luster-a-novel-1","title":"Luster: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery Good hardcover in Very Good dust jacket. Gently read with no markings in text.\u003c\/p\u003e\nUsed Hardcover in Very Good - First Edition condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, Shondaland, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and many more!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"So delicious that it feels illicit . . . Raven Leilani’s first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill.\" —Jazmine Hughes, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo one wants what no one wants.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdie 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrresistibly unruly and strikingly beautiful, razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven Leilani’s \u003ci\u003eLuster \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An irreverent intergenerational tale of race and class that’s blisteringly smart and fan-yourself sexy.” —Michelle Hart,\u003ci\u003e O: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leilani, Raven","offers":[{"title":"Very Good - First Edition","offer_id":53889110081819,"sku":"mon0000799915","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/5624623482321_7e057939-527b-410c-b66c-6bf2061cb275.jpg?v=1788645624","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/luster-a-novel-1","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}