Bright Lines

Named a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the
the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award
"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...