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In an instant you are drawn into Shobha Rao’s novel GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER and in a second, you feel the need to look away. A harrowing look at two poor girls, Poornima and Savitha, who do not deserve the lives they are born into. Despair, hatred, violence, all in a world where women are treated worse than an unsuspecting bug crawling on the ground, not knowing it is about to be stomped on. Each girl is a shining light and by mere chance they meet each other and become like one, until they are torn apart due to the cruelest of occurrences. The story unfolds as they continue to endure hardship that I warn you is often unbearable to read. While reading the cruelty that is besieged upon them, their endurance shows that their lights do, in fact, continue to shine. There is hope even under the worst of times. Physical and emotional pain cannot break someone.

The two young women are raised in a rural town in India where poverty is rampant, customs are adhered to without question, but they see a way out. Determined to help themselves. Their story is very telling of our times today.

Told without holding back a single emotion, raging with determination, not hatred, GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER longs to take you to the other side of humanity. To a world where women are treated with respect, where they can be accomplished and not subservient.


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Girls Burn Brighter A Novel Shobha Rao Books Reviews

This is a remarkable book. It is a big book in some ways, taking on not one but two distinctive, powerful protagonists as well as some Big (and troubling) Ideas racism, sexism, human trafficking, invisibility and marginality, disability. All of that could weigh down a book written by a lesser author. But this book never gets unwieldy or abstract, because down to the smallest detail, Rao’s sentences are perfectly tuned, perfectly economical, perfectly taut. I will not spoil the ending, but I will say that Rao has a masterful sense of pacing and ended this book in a way that steered clear of both pat resolution and limp open-endedness. This is probably my favorite of 2018 so far. Highly recommend.
The writing is exquisite and the book is hard to put down. I was thinking all along, "this will be one of the best novels I've read in a long time." But the last couple of chapters were a letdown Rushed, forced, with and ending that felt abrupt and contrived.
This is a powerful and often horrific book about the persistence of the caste system and the status of women in modern-day India. Poormina is the young, motherless daughter of a weaver who constantly demeans his daughter for her lack of beauty and her dark skin. She befriends Savitha, a beautiful young woman of even lower status. Her father is an alcoholic who has driven his family deeper into poverty, forcing her to take a job as a weaver in Poormina's father's shop. The girls' friendship is the sole source of joy in their lives. So it's no surprise when even this is ripped apart by an act of violence. Their lives take disparate yet equally horrific paths. Savitha leaves her town rather than being forced into marriage with a hated man and, in order to survive, gets caught up in the sex trade--and even worse. Poormina accepts her fate and marries a man with a deformed hand and a cruel family that holds her responsible for everything that displeases them. She, too, becomes a victim of violence and sets out on her own to search for her lost friend.

The suffering of both women is appalling and stomach-churning, but the reader can't help but admire their strength, cleverness, and persistence. One wonders what they might have achieved in a world where they were seen as equals. In their search for one another, the women cross continents and get the better of the men around them. If I have a criticism of the book, it's that it relies too much on coincidence, both for suspense and resolution.
"That lamp glowing from within. How had it survived. . . it was greater than her body. It was greater than all else."

This book is horrifying, eye-opening, well written, and above all hopeful. It literally made my heart explode. On multiple levels and it is not one you would soon forget.

The good very well written with strong characters and a plot that keeps you on the enge of your seat. Taught me a lot about India and human trafficking- something I was aware of, but knew very little about. The best part is the strength of the two heroines throughout the novel and the relationship between them.

The bad this is an ugly topic with some very horrifying scenes throughout the book. It is not a light read and there are not too many times one will smile (though I did a handful of times). The ending was also very abrupt and not too believable. Seemed like there needed to be at least another 30 pages or so.
In an instant you are drawn into Shobha Rao’s novel GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER and in a second, you feel the need to look away. A harrowing look at two poor girls, Poornima and Savitha, who do not deserve the lives they are born into. Despair, hatred, violence, all in a world where women are treated worse than an unsuspecting bug crawling on the ground, not knowing it is about to be stomped on. Each girl is a shining light and by mere chance they meet each other and become like one, until they are torn apart due to the cruelest of occurrences. The story unfolds as they continue to endure hardship that I warn you is often unbearable to read. While reading the cruelty that is besieged upon them, their endurance shows that their lights do, in fact, continue to shine. There is hope even under the worst of times. Physical and emotional pain cannot break someone.

The two young women are raised in a rural town in India where poverty is rampant, customs are adhered to without question, but they see a way out. Determined to help themselves. Their story is very telling of our times today.

Told without holding back a single emotion, raging with determination, not hatred, GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER longs to take you to the other side of humanity. To a world where women are treated with respect, where they can be accomplished and not subservient.