{"product_id":"luster","title":"Luster","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLuster\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRaven Leilani\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374194321\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, Shondaland, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and many more!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"So 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\n\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--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. \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. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Luster | Raven Leilani | Hardcover | 9780374194321 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1778822","offer_id":49814900670616,"sku":"1778822","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91TE4f2wfnL.jpg?v=1788542059","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/luster","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}