The Burning Girl A Novel [Paperback]

The friendship of two girls, Julia and Cassie, animates this slim, dreamlike novel.& Messud plays, lightly, with familiar archetypes, deftly abstracting her tale so that it flares into myth.[Messud] is an absolute master storyteller and bafflingly good writer.& It is that combination of imagination and skill that makes?Breathtaking.& With this novel, Messud brings her own particular brand of astuteness and emotional intelligence through her careful and thoughtful prose.Messud is at her most incisive in exploring the volatile transition from childhood to adolescence.[Messud] has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives& and quietly making a case for womens interiority as a subject worthy of the most serious examination.Messud captures young adolescence vividly and unjudgmentally.& Messud is a storyteller: the ability to compel and hold the readers interest may not be the crown and summit of novel writing, but its the beginning and end of it.& [T]he story rewards the reader right through to the end.Slim but impactful.&Claire Messud nails it& withMessud is psychologically astute about her characters and about the competing social and familial pressures& that make adolescent friendship and its dissolution so fraught.The kind of book more common in the middle of the twentieth century than it is today.&A