The Over-sexualization and Adultification of Black Women and Girls From here, the prose departs from its character-driven aura. Eric is a middle-aged white man who engages Edie in a problematic relationship while in an open marriage to Rebecca, a coroner, and raising Akila, their adopted Black daughter. Edie bares her thoughts to the reader until Eric, Edie’s love interest, and his family come into the picture. Luster by Raven Leilani tells the story of Edie, a twenty-three-year-old Black woman who works an administrative job in an almost all-white publishing firm and is trying to survive. Luster by Raven Leilani | Contemporary Fiction | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 240 pages | Review by Aisha Yusuff When it comes to this, I cannot help feeling that I am at the end of a fluctuation … I am good, but not good enough, which is worse than simply being bad.
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