Circa: A Novel - Hardcover

Laskar, Devi S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0358652928 ISBN 13: 9780358652922

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

For fans of The Burning Girl by Claire Messud and Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi, a stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family's expectations as she grapples with a complicated love and loss.

On the cusp of her eighteenth birthday, Heera and her best friends, siblings Marie and Marco, tease the fun out of life in Raleigh, North Carolina, with acts of rebellion and delinquency. They paint the town’s 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, she’s always avoided any real danger—until 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, Heera’s dream to go to college in New York is suddenly upended. Over the years, Heera’s and Crash’s paths cross and recross on a journey of dreams, desires, jealousies, and betrayals.

Heart-wrenching, darkly funny, and buoyed by gorgeous prose, Circa is at once an irresistible love story and a portrait of a young woman torn between duty and her own survival, between obligation and freedom.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Devi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, which won the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature and the Crook’s Corner Book Prize and was named a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. Laskar’s second novel, Circa, was a GOOP Book Club pick. In 2022, USA TODAY named Laskar among “50 AAPI authors” to read. She is an alumna of the OpEd Project and VONA and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Originally from North Carolina, Laskar now lives in Northern California.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0358652928
• ISBN 13: 9780358652922
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irland