![]() ![]() She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. i.e., Luster may be exactly what you need right now.”Īnd how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it?Įdie 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. I was immediately engrossed by this story and this character, and couldn’t put the book down. ![]() Our narrator Edie’s process of reckoning her art with her productivity and talent is achingly familiar, but what’s most striking is the accessibility of how Edie copes with trauma, loss, and marginalization. It’s earnest, beautiful, urgent, sardonic, and captures the feelings of dangling-over-the-precipice that have epitomized my early twenties so far. “By far the best book I’ve read all summer – Luster is in a league all its own.īreathless, hilarious narration accentuates the themes Leilani explores: autonomy, casual violence, artistry, and self-preservation to name a few. ![]()
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