Brillo / Luster

«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.
 
El debut más premiado de los últimos tiempos, ya en adaptación a serie en una ambiciosa producción de HBO.
 
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Edie is just trying to survive. Shes 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 doesnt really know what shes 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 doesnt 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 wasnt already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Erics home and family.
 
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.
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