This month, journey with us to New York CiTAY (you'll get it if you listen) as we dive into the mind of Edie and the wackadoodle time that is being in your twenties. A disclaimer for this one: as four white women, we obviously can't fully relate to the experience of being a young Black woman, and that's bound to affect our perspectives on the book, but one of the beauties of literature is getting to read about experiences outside your own -- and spoiler alert, boy is this book a beauty. Hear all this and more in this month's discussion of Luster by Raven Leilani.
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Book blurb: 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 is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. 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 invited into Eric’s home―though not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows.
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