Luster

Edie is simply trying to get by. She's screwing up her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, sleeping with all the wrong men, and failing at the only thing that mattered to her, painting. No one seems to mind that she has no idea what she's doing with her life other than seeking her next hook-up. Then she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family that includes a wife who has accepted to open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn't have a single person in her life who can instruct her how to fix her hair.

As if negotiating the constantly shifting environment of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn't difficult enough, Edie finds herself tumbling headfirst into Eric's house and family with nowhere else to go. Luster by Raven Leilani is a cruelly humorous debut on what it means to be young now. It is razor-sharp, provocatively page-turning, and shockingly sweet.

Detailed information:
Author: Raven Leilani
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/51541496-luster