There are frequent references to her past, her family background, and, in particular, her mother who died relatively young in unhappy circumstances. She has a very modest lifestyle, just about surviving on her salary, and her life seems without interest or stimulation. Set in New York, twenty-something Edie is working as a publishing assistant, a job she finds boring. What lifts it above the other two books mentioned above, is the quality of the writing this is most definitely in the ‘literary’ category and Leilani is a phenomenally talented writer. It’s subject is similar to a couple of books I have already read this last year ( Queenie and Such a Fun Age), but it does take a more unconventional journey through the experience of a woman of colour in a mainly white middle-class world. It has won numerous prizes, was a bookshop favourite and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize in the UK this year.
Luster has been causing a bit of a literary storm since it was published in the US late last year.
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