![]() ![]() We first meet Edie when she is about to go on her first IRL date with Eric, a middle-aged white archivist from New Jersey who’s in an open marriage. The only meaningful difference in status between her and the other Black girl at work is “one monthly student loan payment.” ![]() ![]() ![]() I have trouble making friends and men lose interest in me when I talk.” Edie lives in New York City and works in book publishing as a managing editorial coordinator she paints but can’t seem to get any real career traction on that front. “Here’s a fact,” Edie, the 23-year-old narrator of Luster, one of the most unsettling, scathingly funny debut novels of the year, tells us early in the book: “I have great breasts, which have warped my spine. ![]()
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