01973cam a2200301 4500 429180987 TxAuBib 20200721120000.0 190930s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019039498 9780525658696 HRD 25.95 0525658696 HRD 25.95 TxAuBib Majumdar, Megha. Burning. A burning [BOOK] / Megha Majumdar. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 293 pages ; 22 cm. "A novel"--Jacket. "After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely, a spirited, impoverished, relentlessly optimistic hjira, who harbors dreams of becoming a Bollywood star, can provide the alibi that would set Jivan free--but her appearance in court will have unexpected consequences that will change the course of all of their lives. A novel about fate, power, opportunity, and class; about innocence and guilt, betrayal and love, and the corrosive media cycle that manufactures falsehoods masquerading as truths--A Burning is a debut novel of exceptional power and urgency, haunting and beautiful, brutal, vibrant, impossible to forget"-- 20200721. Muslim women Fiction. Railroad accidents Fiction. Terrorism Fiction. Young women Fiction. Social media Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)