{"product_id":"girls-burn-brighter-a-novel-1","title":"Girls Burn Brighter: A Novel","description":"Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Paste, LitHub, Real Simple\n2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Best Fiction\nLonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\n\n“Incandescent...A searing portrait of what feminism looks like in much of the world.” ―Vogue\n\n“A treat for Ferrante fans, exploring the bonds of friendship and how female ambition beats against the strictures of poverty and patriarchal societies.” ―The Huffington Post\n\nAn electrifying debut novel about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstance but relentless in their search for one another.\n\nPoornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor, they are ambitious, and they are girls. After her mother’s death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to care for her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn't feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond arranged marriage. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend.\n\nHer journey takes her into the darkest corners of India's underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles, Shobha Rao's Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250074258\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1250074258.LN\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Like New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rao, Shobha\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in like new condition. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47834758742193,"sku":"RDV.1250074258.LN","price":8.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1250074258-0_36924191-c556-4c7b-9a41-bef9634f4418.jpg?v=1786315395","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/girls-burn-brighter-a-novel-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}