![]() ![]() ![]() She’s drawn to being a mentor to the young girl because Akila is a reminder of her younger self as she deals with flashbacks centering on her toxic family upbringing. Edie soon meets Akila, the Black adopted daughter that Rebecca and Eric neglected to mention. ![]() Now that Edie doesn’t have a secure job and is on the verge of eviction, Rebecca invites her to stay in the home. Edie goes to a party at his house where she meets his wife, Rebecca, a pathologist. Not only is he distant, but he’s also married. She wants a real connection, but when she gets fired over inappropriate sexual relations in the office, she finds herself in the arms of the digital archivist Eric. Love is not the goal as she stumbles through sexual partners, including co-workers. She works at a publishing house but hasn’t fulfilled her passion for art to the fullest extent out of fear of failure. Twenty-something Edie is trying to figure out her purpose. Luster by Raven Leilani is an amazing debut novel that uses masterful verbosity to illustrate the evolution of a millennial Black woman character as she navigates through many obstacles to figure out what she wants to do with her life. ![]()
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