A Burning By Megha Majumdar Black Beauty Petra’s forced to confront the

Petra’s forced to confront the chaos she created

resist peer pressure

the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself

Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret

Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver

A Burning By Megha Majumdar Black Beauty Petra’s forced to confront theFor readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to riseto the middle class, to politcal power, to fame in the moviesand find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook.