The Burning Girl (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393635027)

Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship. The Burning Girl is a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about youth and friendship, and straddles, expertly, childhood's imaginary worlds and painful adult reality--crafting a true, immediate portrait of female adolescence.

Claire Messud, one of our finest novelists, is as accomplished at weaving a compelling fictional world as she is at asking the big questions: To what extent can we know ourselves and others? What are the stories we create to comprehend our lives and relationships? Brilliantly mixing fable and coming-of-age tale, The Burning Girl gets to the heart of these matters in an absolutely irresistible way.

Author: Claire Messud
ISBN-10: 0393635023
ISBN-13: 9780393635027
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2017 pg. 93
Library Journal 03/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 06/12/2017
Library Journal 06/15/2017
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017 pg. 19
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 16
BookPage 09/01/2017
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2017 pg. 13
School Library Journal 10/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 09/26/2017