![]() ![]() 4, 2020 After losing her day job, a troubled young artist finds herself living with her much-older lover, his inscrutable wife, and their adopted daughter in Leilani’s electric debut. Instead I let myself be awed by his middling command of the wine list. LUSTER by Raven Leilani RELEASE DATE: Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() When we’re talking about the sort of dysfunctional urban hungry woman, what we’re generally talking about is the white millennial experience, explained Leilani in a video chat in mid-July. So, sure, an older man is a wonder because he has paid thirty-eight years of Con Ed bills and suffered food poisoning and seen the climate reports and still not killed himself, but somehow, after being a woman for twenty-three years, after the ovarian torsion and student loans and newfangled Nazis in button-downs, I too am still alive, and actually this is the more remarkable feat. But there are two notable ways in which Luster, written by the 29-year-old Raven Leilani, differs.First, the obvious: Edie is Black. He is the most obvious thing that has ever happened to me, and all around the city it is happening to other silly, half-formed women excited by men who’ve simply met the prerequisite of living a little more life, a terribly unspecial thing that is just what happens when you keep on getting up and brushing your teeth and going to work and ignoring the whisper that comes to you at night and tells you it would be easier to be dead. “and I feel it anew, this terrible disappointment in myself that I am happy to take out on him. ![]()
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