Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut.
'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal–and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth
'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' – Diana Evans, Guardian
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 men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn’t already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Eric’s home and family.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Literary Hub, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, NPR, O Magazine, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, Town & Country, Wired, New Statesman, Vox, Shelf Awareness, i-D, BookPage and more.
One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2020
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award.
'A giddy joy, crafted with mischievous perfection.' – Mail on Sunday
© 2021 Picador (Lydbog): 9781529036022
Release date
Lydbog: 21. januar 2021
Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut.
'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal–and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth
'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' – Diana Evans, Guardian
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 men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn’t already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Eric’s home and family.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Literary Hub, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, NPR, O Magazine, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, Town & Country, Wired, New Statesman, Vox, Shelf Awareness, i-D, BookPage and more.
One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2020
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award.
'A giddy joy, crafted with mischievous perfection.' – Mail on Sunday
© 2021 Picador (Lydbog): 9781529036022
Release date
Lydbog: 21. januar 2021
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Ditte
29. sep. 2021
The writing is stunning!It started of a bit slow and meh for my part, but then it took off! It touches so many subjects so effortlessly.Just read it!
K
25. okt. 2021
Så velskrevet at det til tider er helt poetisk, med så meget mening i hver sætning, at man sidder med tilbageholdt åndedræt.. Jeg overvejer at starte den igen med det samme.. 🤩
Morten
22. sep. 2022
En intelligent og hurtigt fokusskiftemde beskrivelse af det at være ung
Barb
10. nov. 2022
Brilliant in therms of vocabulary.
Nikolaj
22. aug. 2023
Utrolig og vild. God lytte oplevelse 💚
Mia
2. sep. 2021
Afsindigt skarpt sprog og mættet, indsigtsfuld fortælling - blæst bagover af intensiteten og lagene i hver sætning
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