![]() ![]() 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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