Bright Lines: A Novel

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Bright Lines: A Novel

Named a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award

â€œA Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh Royal Tenenbaums.â€â€”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 parentsâ€™ murder, and afflicted with hallucinations at dusk, sheâ€™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 Charuâ€™s friend Mayaâ€”an Islamic clericâ€™s runaway daughterâ€”asleep in her bedroom.Â
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As the girls have a summer of clandestine adventure and sexual awakenings, Anwarâ€”owner of a popular botanical apothecaryâ€”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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Country	USA
Author	Tanwi Nandini Islam
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101600603
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
NumberOfPages	296
PublicationDate	2015-08-11
Publisher	Penguin Books
ReleaseDate	2015-08-11
Studio	Penguin Books

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