A Burning
by Megha MajumdarCall Number: FIC .MAJ
Publication Date: 2020
After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people (a student, a teacher, and a hijira with Bollywood aspirations) become inextricably entangled. 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