Luster by Raven Leilani

Fiction.

“I’m good, but not good enough, which is worse than simply being bad.”

Twenty-three-year-old Eddie enters a relationship with a man in an open marriage, Eric. When she loses her job for sleeping with several coworkers, she isn’t able to make rent on her apartment. When she runs into Eric’s wife while he’s on a work trip, she is invited to stay in their home without Eric’s knowledge. It’s hard to put this book into words, but Eddie is an extremely relatable main character and it’s impossible not to sympathize with her struggle to find her place in the world. This book was an incredible read.