The Resource Bright lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam
Bright lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam
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The item Bright lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Bright lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- " "Short-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize " " A Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh "Royal Tenenbaums." "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 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."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 296 pages
- Note
- "A novel"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9780143123132
- Label
- Bright lines
- Title
- Bright lines
- Statement of responsibility
- Tanwi Nandini Islam
- Subject
-
- trueDomestic fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
- trueFamily secrets
- trueGender-nonconforming people
- trueBrooklyn, New York City
- trueBelonging
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueRace relations
- trueBangladesh
- trueGender nonconformity
- trueExtended families
- trueComing-of-age stories
- truePsychological fiction
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- Family life -- Fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueMuslims
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " "Short-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize " " A Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh "Royal Tenenbaums." "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 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."
- Summary
- A Bangladeshi orphan haunted by her parents' murders moves in with family members in Brooklyn until a fateful coming-of-age summer when her Islamic runaway cousin and she confront painful family secrets
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- 10435637
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Islam, Tanwi Nandini
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Young women
- Family life
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Bright lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam
- Note
- "A novel"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054512587
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 296 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143123132
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2015011851
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)906024387
- Label
- Bright lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam
- Note
- "A novel"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054512587
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 296 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143123132
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2015011851
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)906024387
Subject
- trueBangladesh
- trueBelonging
- trueBrooklyn, New York City
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueExtended families
- trueFamilies
- Family life -- Fiction
- trueFamily secrets
- trueGender nonconformity
- trueGender-nonconforming people
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueMuslims
- truePsychological fiction
- trueRace relations
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueYoung women
- Young women -- Fiction
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