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Luster

by Raven Leilani

Hardback (unsigned) £14.99
Published 21st January 2021, 240 pages
Signed first edition £14.99
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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

Details

Luster
by Raven Leilani

ISBN
9781529035988

Publisher
Pan Macmillan

Binding
Hardback

Publication date
Jan. 21, 2021

Dimensions
22.6cm x 14.4cm x 2.9cm

Page count
240 pages