04329cam a2200637 4500 431662316 TxAuBib 20200704120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250752864 1250752868 8f1529a3-c2f6-40c8-90d4-c91706a066f7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5115178 OverDrive (Product ID) 5115178 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Leilani, Raven. Luster [Libby] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2020. racism. books on tape. literary fiction. African American Literature. sexuality. polyamory. audiobooks. contemporary fiction. Coming of age. audio books. womens fiction. art. Race relations. Artists. new york city. black writers. open marriages. womens issues. black experience. debut author. hipsters. comic novels. Black women authors. black lives. funny novels. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 183MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 183MB. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>One of the Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020</b><br /> <i>Vogue</i>, <i>Elle</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Harper's Bazaar</i>, <i>Vulture</i>, <i>Parade</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, <i>Literary Hub</i>, <i>Buzzfeed</i>, <i>Electric Literature, Refinery29</i>, <i>The Rumpus</i>, <i>Book Riot</i>, <i>Thrilllist</i>, <i>Domino</i>, <i>PopSugar</i>, <i>New York Amsterdam News,</i> Bookshop.org<br /> <b><br /> "Exacting, hilarious, and deadly...A writer of exhilarating freedom and daring."</b> <b>—Zadie Smith, <i>Harper's Bazaar</i></b><br /> <b>"Impossible to put down." —Ling Ma, author of <i>Severance</i></b><br /> <i>No one wants what no one wants.</i><br /> And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we're ready to take it?<br /> Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties<b>—</b>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<b>—</b>with <i>rules</i>.<br /> As 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.<br /> Irresistibly unruly and strikingly beautiful, razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven Leilani's <i>Luster</i> is 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.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux</b></p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-08-07 22:00:03. Blake, Ariel. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/5115178-Luster.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8f1529a3-c2f6-40c8-90d4-c91706a066f7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/5115178-Luster.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8f1529a3-c2f6-40c8-90d4-c91706a066f7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)