Luster av Raven Leilani

 

Edie is stumbling 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's also, secretly, haltingly figuring her way into life as an artist. 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 falling into Eric's family life, his home. She becomes a hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie is the only black woman young Akila may know.
Razor-sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Raven Leilani's Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life 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.

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Detta var en bok jag valde att läsa/lyssna till bara för att den var en av  Ashas favoriter från 2021. Sen hade jag inte så stor inblick i vad det var för bok då jag började läsa den, så jag blev förvånad över vad jag fick. Sen var jag lite okoncentrerad ibland då jag lyssnade, kan ju lätt bli det vid lyssnande av ljudböcker, men jag gillade ändå läsupplevelsen jag fick, för det var en ovanlig mörk historia jag fick men som ändå visade på samhörighet och människokärlek.