{"product_id":"the-rooster-bar-9781250074256","title":"Girls Burn Brighter: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBest Book of the Year:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Paste, LitHub,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Best Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incandescent...A searing portrait of what feminism looks like in much of the world.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn electrifying debut novel about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstance but relentless in their search for one another.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoornima 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGirls Burn Brighter\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eintroduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flatiron Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41081843056846,"sku":"9781250074256","price":24.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781250074256_a_1.png?v=1731906603","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/the-rooster-bar-9781250074256","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}