The Ending of Girls Burn Brighter

Girls Burn Brighter is the debut novel of Shobha Rao. It is the story of Savitha and Poornima, who we first meet in a small village in India. Poornima's family was poor. They had enough to afford basic food, but not to pay for treatment when her mother got cancer. Poornima worked at spooling thread … Continue reading The Ending of Girls Burn Brighter →

The Ending of An American Marriage

book cover of An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is a love story, but it is not a conventional one. The first third of the book is about newlyweds Celestial and Roy, with each of them having one chapter to set the stage. In the last two thirds of the book, the third in their triangle, Andre, gets … Continue reading The Ending of An American Marriage →