02096cam a2200349 i 4500 446955747 TxAuBib 20201031120000.0 200403s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020012289 9780374194321 hardcover $26.00 0374194327 hardcover $26.00 (OCoLC)1119744688 TxAuBib rda Leilani, Raven. Luster / Raven Leilani. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 227 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20201031. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Adopted children Fiction. Archivists Fiction. Women forensic pathologists Fiction. Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. TXMLR