{"product_id":"lustre-keenan-norris-9781955239455","title":"Lustre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaking place in the other California, the desert city of San Suerte, LUSTRE is about the luckless Lustre Little, a boy haunted by the violence of his hometown; ex-convict Sharone Bonilla, who is haunted by his history; and Destiny Deveraux, an orphan, come of age, who is learning and teaching love and responsibility.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book settles in this Faulknerian way into its own Yoknapatawpha County. Lustre, Sharone, Destiny, Eddie, Pedro, all of these people live within the landscape of San Suerte.\"--Laleh Khadivi, author of \u003cem\u003eA Good Country\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is much to admire and learn from Norris' storytelling and his ability to create a city such as San Suerte with its intensive, complicated, and engaging characters. In \u003cem\u003eLustre\u003c\/em\u003e, a triangle of characters provides us with profound insights into how individuals deal with poverty, loss, and their haunting indecisions. They say that people in Southern California when hit with a firestorm, earthquake, flood, or mudslide, rebuild on the same spot instead of moving away. Norris' characters stay and face their specific hardships, dramatizing a grit in people who try to rebuild their lives while confronting a violent past and unsure future. We know Norris' characters; they are our neighbors.\"--Juan Delgado, author of \u003cem\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the American Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eLustre\u003c\/em\u003e is a pleasure! In his thoroughly distinctive voice, Keenan Norris seduces the audience into a world of Bibleizing hustlers, where sleep is cavernous and the khakis stiff. As a lifelong resident of the city Norris has fictionalized in this profound story of an Empire, a people and their placelessness, this reader finds himself full 'like so much syrup risen and settled, thick-sweet and still ... ' In San Suerte, the barbershop feels like church, and church, like revival. A masterful offering.\"--Eric DeVaughnn, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beauty of Dragons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiction. African \u0026amp; African American Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keenan Norris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955239452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955239455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nomadic Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Keenan Norris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133259018495,"sku":"9781955239455","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d6b9773e-fece-4e61-9955-24e4dcc560d9.jpg?v=1687485030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lustre-keenan-norris-9781955239455","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}