by Claire Messud · Fleet · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780708898628
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«The Burning Girl» is the coming-of-age novel by Claire Messud, published by Fleet in paperback (213 pages, in English).
Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since childhood in Royston, Massachusetts, but in adolescence their lives diverge: Julia has a stable family, while Cassie lives with her single mother. When her mother falls in love with a mysterious man, Cassie feels abandoned and embarks on a journey that threatens her life and their friendship.
Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the fiction category (2017). Fleet is an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs interested in stories about female friendship and the transition to adulthood.
Claire Messud is an American/Canadian/French novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).
