Raven Leilani has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.3★ across 26 ratings. The most-rated is Luster.
Luster
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New York Times best seller Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A Best Book of 2020 Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Town and Country, Amazon, Indigo, NPR, Harper’s Bazaar, Kirkus Reviews, Marie Claire "Exacting, hilarious, and deadly... A writer of exhilarating freedom and daring." (Zadie Smith, Harper's Bazaar) Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage. Edie is stumbling her way through her 20s - sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly, figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage - with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. She becomes a hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie is the only black woman who young Akila knows. Razor sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life in a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.
©2020 Raven Leilani (P)2020 Bond Street Books
Distrust
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In the tradition of her New York Times bestsellers Revenge, Ruthless and Backlash, Lisa Jackson's fifth omnibus collection combines a two classic Silhouette romances that have been out of print for over 30 years, reviving them for today's listeners. With their common theme of unseen threats, Renegade Sun and Midnight Sun are now available in one thrilling volume of revenge, obsession, and deception . . . Dear Reader, Seventy-five plus novels into my career, I'm so happy that I get to keep weaving stories for you. These days, my novels often veer down darker paths. But even in my early books, there were traces of the themes and subjects I find most fascinating - revenge, obsession, and deception . . . The two novels collected here, with a fabulous new title, Distrust, share a common thread of unseen threats. In Renegade Son, single mother Danielle Summers is convinced her ranch is slowly being sabotaged. Newcomer Chase McEnroe insists she should trust him. But Dani's suspicion that Chase is in league with her enemy is complicated by a secret from his past. There's nothing secretive about the hostility between two of Oregon's leading lumber families in Midnight Sun. The feud has been long, ruthless, and bloody, and Ashley Stephens and Trevor Daniels are still reeling from the damage it's caused. Now, eight years after their relationship ended, Trevor discovers that not only is his bid for a senate seat in jeopardy, but his life may be too. And the future of both may lie with Ashley . . . Filled with intrigue, I believe you will enjoy reading the novels in Distrust as much as I have enjoyed revisiting them! Lisa Jackson
©2021 by Kensington Publishing Corp. Distrust is a compilation of Renegade Son © 1987 by Lisa Jackson and Midnight Sun © 1985 by Lisa Jackson. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.