Luster
06 January 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal—and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith
Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the Year
Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction
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...
Details
06 January 2022240 pages
9781529036008Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Leilani’s story of Edie, a broke 23-year-old black woman who gets involved with a wealthy older white couple, cuts to the quick of the often grim realities of being young and black in the US today. But it’s wincingly funny, too . . . Leilani’s prose mesmerises; you go with her, wherever she decides to take you . . . A remarkable portrait of the artist as a young woman.Observer
[Leilani] is a caustic, funny and skilful storyteller, taking us deeply and convincingly inside the head of a millennial woman frantically trying to make sense of the world and her place within it.Sunday Times
In this cutting, hot-blooded book, the entanglements that unfold are as complicated as they are heartbreaking.New Statesman
With deadpan wit and remarkable talent, Raven Leilani effortlessly exposes the chasms between generations, faces and genders.Vogue
