{"product_id":"strange-girls-hardcover","title":"Strange Girls - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarvat Hasin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Touching, infuriating and painfully true, \u003ci\u003eStrange Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a superlative novel by one of our most perceptive writers. Sarvat Hasin is an artist whose work demands to be read.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Julia Armfield, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Wives Under the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn award-winning international author's stunning US debut about two estranged friends who are forced to reunite over one feverish weekend and reckon with the choices that tore them apart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. During the years of silence, Ava's life has remained at a standstill, while Aliya got the one thing they both wanted more than anything: a book deal. Forced back together at a mutual friend's bachelorette in London, Ava returns to Aliya's doorstep, desperate to unpack the truth of their shared history--and what they meant to each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the two first met in the halls of their historic campus, their connection was electric. Aliya and Ava created a world of their own through the stories they wrote, influencing and borrowing from each other's work. But when the end of college loomed, the real world began to pull them in opposite directions. Was their bond ever truly as strong as Aliya thought? And what would become of the stories they told themselves about each other? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together the friends' past and present, \u003ci\u003eStrange Girls \u003c\/i\u003eis an ingenious portrait of a fraught friendship, and an exploration of the ties forged in the intensity of the college experience, and the scars left when they break.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarvat Hasin\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has a masters in creative writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Wide Night\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Penguin Random House India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eYou Can't Go Home Again, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 2018 and featured in \u003ci\u003eVogue India'\u003c\/i\u003es and \u003ci\u003eThe Hindu'\u003c\/i\u003es best of the year lists. Her third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Giant Dark, \u003c\/i\u003e was a runaway critical success, won the Mo Siewcharran Prize, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. \u003ci\u003eStrange Girls \u003c\/i\u003eis her US debut. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.27 x 9.07 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987724665133,"sku":"9798217179527","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/MfIL3TiUE89798217179527.webp?v=1776183715","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/strange-girls-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}