Book description
'A treat for Ferrante fans, exploring the bonds of friendship and how female ambition beats against the strictures of poverty and patriarchal societies'
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An electrifying debut novel - the story of the unbreakable bond between two girls driven apart, and their journeys across continents to find each other…
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1 author picked Girls Burn Brighter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The sisters in Girls Burn Brighter aren’t related by blood or family or tradition or history. They are sisters in ways much more profound and important and life-changing and path-determining than that. This beautiful novel traverses continents and cultures to prove blood ties and family ties have nothing on sister ties.
From Laurie's list on how sisters are great but also a pain in your ass.
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