![]() Leilani is such a funny writer that the despair of Edie’s predicament isn’t clear until she’s fully immersed in it. His wife, Rebecca, is twitchily tolerant of Eric’s affair they have an adopted daughter, Akila, who’s Black, and Edie soon realizes she’s been passively recruited into being a confessor, lover and ad hoc sister. ![]() Surprise: In short order, Edie finds herself effectively cohabitating with Eric’s family in their New Jersey suburb. More: Poet laureate tries to make sense of a beloved mother’s slaying in 'Memorial Drive' ![]() “Even with good men, you are always waiting for the surprise.”īook review: A stranger seeks refuge in Catherine Lacey's timely, confounding new novel 'Pew' “There is still ample time for him to bring up how much he enjoyed 'Atlas Shrugged,'” she thinks. Why not act out? So after Eric takes her on a date to an amusement park – oh, she’s infantilized too – she’s attracted, if skeptical. She’s an underpaid young professional Black woman with few prospects. If anything, she’s all too aware of her circumstances. It’s not that she doesn’t know what she’s doing. She’s 23 and at risk of losing her New York publishing job, partly because of her office hours promiscuity, which includes sexting with Eric, a married man across town. ![]() ![]() Watch Video: Emmys 2020: Leslie Jones surprises Laverne Cox with Emmy nodĮdie, the narrator of Raven Leilani’s vibrant, spiky debut novel, “Luster,” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 240 pp., ★★★½ out of four) is having a hard time adulting. ![]()
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