A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female
friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman
Upstairs. Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes 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: while Julia comes from a stable,
happy, middle-class family, Cassie never knew her father, who died
when she was an infant, and has an increasingly tempestuous
relationship with her single mother, Bev. When Bev becomes involved
with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels cruelly abandoned.
Disturbed, angry and desperate for answers, she sets out on a
journey that will put her own life in danger, and shatter her
oldest friendship. Compact, compelling, and ferociously sad, The
Burning Girl is at once a story about childhood, friendship and
community, and a complex examination of the stories we tell
ourselves about childhood and friendship. Claire Messud brilliantly
mixes folklore and Bildungsroman, exploring the ways in which our
made-up stories, and their consequences, become real.
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