Bright Lines A Novel Author:Tanwi Nandini Islam ? Long-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize ? — ?A wonderful debut. . . . The beauty of this novel is that it perfectly merges fascinating narrative, honest characters, and the rich history and culture of Bangladesh with the juxtaposition of Bangladesh?s past and future and of that country with America, adding to the reading p... more »leasure.? ?Library Journal (starred review)
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.« less
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