Luster -

Raven Leilani

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2020

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-10: 0374194327

Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties―sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly figuring her way into life as an artist. 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―with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. She becomes hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie is the only black woman young Akila may know.

Razor sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make her sense of her life 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.

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Minha experiência com a leitura não foi muito boa.

Gostei de saber como é ser adulto nos EUA, quando a gente pensa que tudo tá perdido e não basicamente um teto pra ficar. Se instalando na casa de amigos e lutando pra procurar uma vaga no mercado de trabalho, ainda mais sendo uma mulher negra.
Não gostei da forma que ela foi narrando as situações com uns diálogos bem estranhos, e também a relação que ela tem com homens brancos sejam ele casados ou não. No fim justifica todas as atitudes dela voltando no passado, mas mesmo assim.

Fica a recomendação pra quem gosta da série Insecure ou Fleabag.