The Resource Girls burn brighter, Shobha Rao
Girls burn brighter, Shobha Rao
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- Summary
- A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: "I was standing there, and I was thinking...she's just a girl. Let her go...That's the thing with girls, isn't it...You think, Push. That's all it would take, Just one little push." After her mother's death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of 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 the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her 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, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them.--Amazon
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250074256
- Label
- Girls burn brighter
- Title
- Girls burn brighter
- Statement of responsibility
- Shobha Rao
- Subject
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- Girls -- India -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAmbition in women
- trueArranged marriage
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueHuman trafficking
- trueIndia
- India -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- truePoor women
- Seattle (Wash.) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- trueSexual slavery
- trueUnited States
- trueViolence against women
- trueVoyages and travels
- true21st century -- 2001 -- 2100
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: "I was standing there, and I was thinking...she's just a girl. Let her go...That's the thing with girls, isn't it...You think, Push. That's all it would take, Just one little push." After her mother's death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of 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 the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her 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, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them.--Amazon
- Summary
- Forging a deep friendship with impoverished but passionate fellow weaver Savitha, motherless Poornima begins to reconnect with the beauty of the world before a devastating act of cruelty drives her friend away, compelling her to leave behind everything she knows to search for her friend in the darkest corners of India's underworld and beyond
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2018.
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2018.
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2018
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10624064
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rao, Shobha
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Girls
- Female friendship
- India
- Seattle (Wash.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Girls burn brighter, Shobha Rao
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1005782720
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250074256
- Lccn
- 2017045149
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1005782720
- Label
- Girls burn brighter, Shobha Rao
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1005782720
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250074256
- Lccn
- 2017045149
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1005782720
Subject
- Girls -- India -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAmbition in women
- trueArranged marriage
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueHuman trafficking
- trueIndia
- India -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- truePoor women
- Seattle (Wash.) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- trueSexual slavery
- trueUnited States
- trueViolence against women
- trueVoyages and travels
- true21st century -- 2001 -- 2100
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- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2018
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Adult Fiction for Young Adults: 2018
- trueLoan Stars Favourites: 2018
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Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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