«La novela que por fin explica qué es ser joven hoy. Una escritora
absolutamente brutal.» --Zadie Smith
Edie, una joven afroamericana de 23 años, tiene una aventura con Eric,
un hombre blanco casado de 41. El hogar no se rompe. Este matrimonio
privilegiado, pero progresista, la invita a trabajar en su casa. El
hogar, lleno de tensiones y descubrimientos, se convierte en otra cosa.
Libro favorito de Barack Obama y de The New Yorker. Bestseller en la
lista de The New York Times. Uno de los libros del año de The New
York Times Review of Books, NPR, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los
Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, The Times (UK), Buzzfeed,
Kirkus, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, The Guardian,
Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library y
Wired, entre muchas otras cabeceras de lo más dispares.
Ganador de los premios NBCC John Leonard Prize, Kirkus, Premio Primera
Novela de The Center for Fiction, Premio Dylan Thomas, y el VCU Cabell
al mejor debut.
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Razor-sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender,
Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut about what it means
to be young now.
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.
