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. 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. Read more failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has. 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.
'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut.
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