Join the book release party of Shobha Rao’s new book “Girls Burn Brighter” on Tuesday, March 6th, at City Lights Book in San Francisco, California at 7:00 pm.
Shobha Rao also wrote the short story collection An Unrestored Woman. She moved to the US from India at the age of seven. Shobha’s achievements include a Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was picked by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015.
Praise for Girls Burn Brighter:
“Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao blew my heart up. Heart-shards everywhere. I am in awe of the warmth and humanity in this book, even as it explores some incredibly dark places. I’m going to be thinking about Girls Burn Brighter for a while, and you’re going to be hearing a lot about it.” —Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
“Enchanting… The resplendent prose captures the nuances and intensity of two best friends on the brink of an uncertain and precarious adulthood… An incisive study of a friendship’s unbreakable bond.” —Kirkus Reviews
