CircaAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 3 May 2022
Description
For fans ofThe Burning Girlby Claire Messud andBurnt Sugarby Avni Doshi, a stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, mustnavigateher family'sexpectationsas she grapples withacomplicated love and loss.
On the cusp of her eighteenth birthday, Heera and her best friends, siblings Marie and Marco, teasethe fun out of life in Raleigh, North Carolina, with acts ofrebellion anddelinquency. They paint the towns water towers with red anarchy symbols and hang out at the local bus station to pickpocket money for their Great Escape to New York. But no matter how much Heera defies her strict upbringing, shes always avoided any real dangeruntil one devastating night changes everything.
In its wake, Marco reinvents himself as Crash and spends his days womanizing and burning through a string of jobs. Meanwhile, Heeras dream to go to college in New York is suddenly upended. Over the years, Heeras and Crashs paths cross and recross on a journey of dreams, desires, jealousies, and betrayals.
Heart-wrenching, darkly funny, and buoyed by gorgeous prose,Circais at once an irresistible love story and a portrait of a young woman torn between duty and her own survival, between obligation and freedom.
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