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Raven leilani luster review6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void.” It’s that there are gray, anonymous hours like this. “It’s not that I want exactly this, to have a husband or home security system that, for the length of our marriage, never goes off. She’s drawn to Eric because of the challenge, his wife Rebecca agreed to an open marriage in exchange for her setting the rules. In the beginning of the novel, Edie is hooking up with multiple guys and one of them is an older man named Eric. ![]() Her thoughts are shocking and unfiltered or the most mundane observations about who got on the metro and the people she encounters. Luster reads like a soliloquy or a diary. She’s also teetering on the edge of depression?Įdie is alone AND lonely. She works at a publishing company which doesn’t pay well but… it’s a job and she has one (for now). Edie is a twenty three year old black woman who lives in New York. Luster integrates stereotypes about being a Millennial in an effortless and lucid manner, encompassing gender and race. ![]() If you’ve read and enjoyed Sally Rooney, Stephanie Danler ( Sweetbitter was a train wreck, but in the same spirit as Luster), Helen Oyeyemi or Ottessa Moshfeg you will be fond of Raven Leilani’s offering.Īccording to google, a Millennial is anyone born between the years 19. ![]() And let me tell you… this is quintessential Millennial fiction. We’re starting 2021 off with Luster, a lustrous (see what I did there?) debut from Raven Leilani. ![]()
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