{"product_id":"luster-9781250798671","title":"Luster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003ci\u003eO Magazine, Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, Shondaland, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInStyle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSelf\u003c\/i\u003e, The New York Public Library, \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, Boston.com, \u003ci\u003eHappy Mag\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Chatelaine, The Undefeated\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eApartment Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Based\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of the World Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExile in Bookville, Lit Reactor, BookPage, i-D\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, Barack Obama\u003cbr\u003eA BEST BOOK FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS: \u003ci\u003eAV Club\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\/The Strategist, The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER * \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSo 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdie is stumbling her way through her twenties\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003esharing 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\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ewith \u003ci\u003erules\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. 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