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A vibrant debut novel, set in Brooklyn and Bangladesh, Bright Lines 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 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. Best Read Bright Lines Author Tanwi Nandini Islam For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Everything I love Brooklyn, Bangladesh, botany, sexuality, taboos In one home.I m a tad partial, of course.This debut novel is a kind of game changer for me I was interested to know what it must be like for Islamic immigrants settling in New York City, but came away thinking I was the one adjusting to life in a strange country The experience of reading this debut is very New York but it is something else, too It is so far from the lives of middle America that we may not recognize it as organic growth, like a seed wrapped in a soil bomb of wetted soil and clay and tossed from a speeding bicycle This debut novel is a kind of game changer for me I was interested to know what it must be like for Islamic immigrants settling in New York City, but came away thinking I was the one adjusting to life in a strange country The experience of reading this debut is very New York but it is something else, too It is so far from the lives of middle America that we may not recognize it as organic growth, like a seed wrapped in a soil bomb of wetted soil and clay and tossed from a speeding bicycle We knew that American consciousness had changed, what with the legalization of same sex marriage in Massachusetts in 2004, the election of a black man to the office of President of the Uni...As college growsdistant in my life s rear view mirror, my patience for subtlety in literature dwindles Since reading is no longer work for me, I have trouble muscling up the gumption for novels that require a lot of their readers Especially this summer, I have been hungry for page turning, plot driven novels with twists and turns and sordid secrets So maybe it s a case of right book, wrong time Even though I enjoyed it, Bright Lines was a bit too cautious for me, ...A Brooklyn by way of Bangladesh Royal Tenenbaums A pot tinged, PTSD Muslim Sesame Street With sex Hallucinations, hijabs and handlebars on the always busy Atlantic Avenue.Read my full review at denverpost.com.The author has really taken her time to craft the characters in this story It centers on two generations of a family The parents, immigrants to New York from Bangladesh, have survived war and the tearing apart of families and friendships, and at some level cannot sympathize with the small troubles of their children The ...Originally published at is not an easy thing, describing this book A family saga An immigrant story A bildungsroman All of this andHowever you d like to group it under, there is no doubt that this was an ambitious book A book filled with larger than life characters A book full of energy and colour and spirit.It is 2003 and Ella, home from college, sneaks into the Brooklyn house of her aunt Hashi and uncle Anwar.Ella is the adopted daughter, t Originally published at is not an easy thing, describing this book A family saga An immigrant story A bildungsroman All of this andHowever you d like to group it under, there is no doubt that this was an ambitious book A book filled with larger than life characters A book full of energy and colour and spirit.It is 2003 and Ella, home from college, sneaks into the Brooklyn house of her aunt Hashi and uncle Anwar.Ella is the adopted daughter, technically the niece Her parents died in Bangladesh when she was very young She s at a crossroads in life As is her sister Charu Anwar s daughter , about to head to NYU Charu thinks herself an entrepreneur designer, making hijabs out of unusual cloth for sale Ella has also had a bit of a crush on Charu for quite a while now.Anwar owns an apothecary, selling homemade beauty products, and Hashi runs a beauty salon out of their home.And add to this mix Charu s friend Maya, the daughter of a strict ...It was a pretty good book that kept meor less engaged throughout Honestly, if I were not required to read this for a work training course, I probably would not have picked this one up but it s good that I read something I normally wouldn t and I didn t think it was a waste of time I learned a lot about Bangladesh that I never knew before, though there is much in the book about the different tribes, peoples, and places that were never made clear for me due to my lack of founding knowled It was a pretty good book that kept meor less engaged throughout Honestly, if I were not required to read this for a work training course, I probably would not have picked this one up but it s good that I read something I normally wouldn t and I didn t think it was a waste of time I learned a lot about Bangladesh that I never knew before, though there is much in the book about the different tribes, peoples, and places that were never made clear for me due to my lack of founding knowledge.The characters were developedenough I never felt like any of the characters had their own strong and unique voices They all seemed to have the same voice but spoke in that voice relative to their own role in the action The majority of the men in...I really wanted to like it The story of a family set in both New York and Bangladesh tells the tale of several family members with their loves, hidden desires, work, struggles andElla El and Charu are cousins raised as siblings after the death of Ella El s parents Charu s parents, Anwar and Hashi, make a living in their brownstone Maya is a young woman who comes to stay with the family after a severe falling out with her father To be honest, this was a struggle It takes quite a while I really wanted to like it The story of a family set in both New York and Bangladesh tells the tale of several family members with their loves, hidden desires, work, struggles andElla El and Charu are cousins raised as siblings after the death of Ella El s parents Charu s parents, Anwar and Hashi, make a living in their brownstone Maya is a young woman who comes to stay with the family after a severe falling out with her father To be honest, this was a struggle It takes quite a while to figure out where this story is going and what the conflict is It turns out it s ...This is a really engrossing immigrant family drama, parts of which feel very familiar, not that different from the experiences of my mother s family Immigrant parents, American children, family left behind in the old country, old family issues that didn t disappear because they moved away.The difference, of course, is that this family are Muslims from Bangladesh.Anwar and Hashi Saleem have built a good life in Brooklyn, where they have raised their daughter Charu and their orphaned niece Ella This is a really engrossing immigrant family drama, parts of which feel very familiar, not that different from the experiences of my mother s family Immigrant parents, American children, family left behind in the old country, old family issues that didn t disappear because they moved away.The difference, of course, is that this family are Muslims from Bangladesh.Anwar and Hashi Saleem have built a good life in Brooklyn, where they have raised their daughter Charu and their orph...I received an Advanced Reader s Copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.3 starsI didn t love this book but I can t seem to stop thinking about the characters It s an impressive debut novel, especially with respect to how well developed each of the characters are considering the book has less than 300 pages.The story is told from the point of view of multiple family members over the course of a summer Each character is affected differently by the e...

Bright Lines
  • English
  • 16 October 2017
  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • 0143123130
  • Tanwi Nandini Islam
  • Bright Lines