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Luster
Released the same day as the standard print edition
Title:
Luster
Written by:
Raven Leilani 
Read by:
Ariel Blake 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
6 hours 40 minutes 
Published:
January 21 2021 
Available Date:
January 21 2021 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781529068047 
Genres:
Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Humorous Fiction; Literary Fiction 
Publisher:
Bolinda/Macmillan audio 
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New York Times bestselling author
Award winning author
Debut novel

Razor sharp and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully hilarious debut about what it means to be young now.

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn’t already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Eric’s home and family.

'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal – and brilliant.'
Zadie Smith, author of Swing Time

'Darkly funny with wicked insight ... This keenly observed, dynamic debut is so cutting, it almost stings.'
Elle

'Luster is entirely remarkable, and the most delicious novel I’ve read.'
Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie

'A beguiling fever dream of a novel, shot through with wistfulness, humor, and a kind of breathless, furious verve. You’ll find it impossible to put down.'
Ling Ma, author of Severance

'Hilarious, honest, bursting with desire and cutting insight, Luster is absolutely captivating.'
Justin Torres, author of We the Animals