![]() ![]() ![]() Luster by Raven Leilani (List price: $26.00, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), recommended by novel., Memphis, TN. ![]() She doesn’t paint enough anymore and is trying to outrun student loan repayments, her dysfunctional bowels and the threat of genteel millennial poverty. razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven Leilanis Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to. There’s a stream-of-consciousness quality to Edie’s narration that made me linger too long in a no-longer-warm bath, turning page after page, not to outpace cliffhanging chapters, but to absorb her complete thoughts, scrape up every last bit of observational savvy, to go back and check one more time to be sure I didn’t overlook any emotional clues in Edie’s self-portrait. Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster is the story of Edie, a twenty-something who works in the ironically cutthroat world of New York children’s book publishing. Luster is sad, sexy, and hypnotically paced, better binged than nibbled. Emotionally enfeebled by a toxic and lonely childhood and anchored only by her art, Edie veers frequently between genius levels of self-awareness and a stubborn tendency to make the optimally self-destructive choice in spite of that. Luster by Raven Leilani 88,277 ratings, 3.55 average rating, 11,574 reviews Open Preview Luster Quotes Showing 1-30 of 141 I think of how keenly Ive been wrong. Painter Edie–black, twenty-something, and precariously employed as an editorial coordinator for a children’s imprint–is in a new relationship with Eric, an archivist whose wife has recently issued guidelines for how to appropriately open their marriage. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |