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Bright Lines

Bright Lines

Islam, Tanwi Nandini

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0143123130
ISBN13: 9780143123132
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Aug 11 2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
Named a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award

ONE OF THE CUT'S 13 BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS CELEBRATING PRIDE MONTH

A Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh Royal Tenenbaums.--The Denver Post

A vibrant debut novel, set in Brooklyn and Bangladesh, follows three young women and one family struggling to make peace with secrets and their past

For as long as she can remember, Ella has longed to feel at home. Orphaned as a child after her parents' murder, and afflicted with hallucinations at dusk, she's always felt more at ease in nature than with people. She traveled from Bangladesh to Brooklyn to live with the Saleems: her uncle Anwar, aunt Hashi, and their beautiful daughter, Charu, her complete opposite. One summer, when Ella returns home from college, she discovers Charu's friend Maya--an Islamic cleric's runaway daughter--asleep in her bedroom.

As the girls have a summer of clandestine adventure and sexual awakenings, Anwar--owner of a popular botanical apothecary--has his own secrets, threatening his thirty-year marriage. But when tragedy strikes, the Saleems find themselves blamed. To keep his family from unraveling, Anwar takes them on a fated trip to Bangladesh, to reckon with the past, their extended family, and each other.

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