“Pulse-racing.”
        — Booklist starred review

“As narratively brutal as it is beautiful…”
             — Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

“A timely, poignant meditation on police 
  brutality and lingering racism.”
           

Winner of the 2020 Crook's Corner Book Prize

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Winner of the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award in Literature

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Named by The Washington Post as one of 50 best books of 2019

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Named by The Georgia Center for the Book as "A Book All Georgians Should Read" 2019

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Finalist, Northern California Book Award in Fiction (2019)

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Long-listed for the DSC Prize in South Asian Literature & Long-listed for CIBA's Golden Poppy Award

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“Devi S Laskar's debut novel is a "searing meditation" on race and gender”
 — DNA India

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“Laskar’s stunning debut skillfully tackles … racism … in a mosaic.”                                          

 — Publishers Weekly

“A …. harrowing fever dream of a novel…”                                                            

— Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors 

“… [A] fiery honest reckoning with today’s cultural landscape…”                                                                            — Elizabeth Rosner, author of Survivor Cafe 

“An unforgettable exploration of what it means to be a woman of color in contemporary America…”           — Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation 

“…mining the most searing art out of a horror pulled straight from current events…”                                       — Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling

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