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For fans ofThe Burning Girlby Claire Messud andBurnt Sugarby Avni Doshi, a stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, mustnavigateher family'sexpectationsas she grapples withacomplicated love and loss.
On the cusp of her eighteenth birthday, Heera and her best friends, siblings Marie and Marco, teasethe fun out of life in Raleigh, North Carolina, with acts ofrebellion anddelinquency. 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,Circais at once an irresistible love story and a portrait of a young woman torn between duty and her own survival, between obligation and freedom.
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Devi S. Laskar
DEVI S. LASKAR is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award and the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and was named a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. She is an alumna of the OpEd Project and VONA and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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