Were there any other literary characters who helped you glimpse who she might be? I’m so glad she didn’t! She is such a unique force. My brain doesn't turn completely on until the sun goes down It still feels crazy to admit this, but Edie was supposed to die. I knew I was going to write about painting and I absolutely knew that I was going to write about Edie’s experience in the middle of this open relationship, but the book kept changing as I was writing. And some of the most vulnerable subjects for me, I guess, are art and intimacy and failure. Because I was trying to scrabble together pages, I wrote in a panic and edited myself emotionally less, so the work came from a more vulnerable place.
I wanted to write something that felt honest and urgent. When my teachers asked me whether I had any real intention behind my project and I couldn’t articulate an answer, I started Luster. I wrote it when I was in NYU’s MFA programme, which I’d come to with an entirely different novel. Leilani, 31, spoke from her home in Brooklyn. Cue a plethora of razor-sharp, caustically funny insights into the politics of race, gender and desire. After getting fired from an entry-level publishing job and ground down by the gig economy, Edie moves in with her middle-aged white lover, his white wife, and their (adopted) black daughter in the suburbs. Now published in paperback, it tells the story of Edie, a young black woman trying to find her way as a painter in New York City. R aven Leilani is the author of Luster, a kinetic, award-winning debut novel whose fans include Barack Obama. There she not only finds herself in an increasingly tense relationship with the couple, but also becoming an unlikely mentor to their adopted Black daughter Akila.". "Edie is a young Black artist living a precarious existence in New York City when she takes a white lover in an open marriage, eventually moving in with him and his wife in the suburbs. The series storyline is likely to run fairly close to that of the novel, especially given that the book was only released in 2020. Here's everything we know about Luster so far. Which is why we were over the moon about the news that Luster by Raven Leilani - as in, our favourite book of 2020 - is being adapted into a series for HBO by Westworld star Tessa Thompson. From Nine Perfect Strangersand Maidto After We Fell, we're basically watching anything that started on paper (or as a podcast, for that matter). We cannot get enough of book to screen adaptations right now.
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