{"product_id":"inside-the-mirror-book-parul-kapur-9781496236784","title":"Inside the Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Center for Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 New American Voices Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Literary Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Multicultural Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 American Fiction Award in Literary Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 American Fiction Award in Multicultural Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women?s education who assumes the right to choose his daughters? vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city?s dynamic new modern art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule. Her twin sister, Kamlesh, a passionate student of Bharata Natyam dance, complies with her father?s decision that she become a schoolteacher while secretly pursuing forbidden dreams of dancing onstage and in the movies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Jaya moves out of her family home to live with a woman mentor, she suffers grievous consequences as a rare woman in the men?s domain of art. Not only does her departure from home threaten her family?s standing and crush her reputation; Jaya loses a vital connection to Kamlesh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, Parul Kapur?s \u003ci\u003eInside the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e is set in the aftermath of colonialism, as an impoverished India struggles to remake itself into a modern state. Jaya?s story encompasses art, history, political revolt, love, and women?s ambition to seize their own power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50121563177233,"sku":"CIN1496236785VG","price":16.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51030642327825,"sku":"NIN9781496236784","price":26.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51079380042001,"sku":"CIN1496236785G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52785454121233,"sku":"GOR014620946","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1496236785.jpg?v=1762857552","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/inside-the-mirror-book-parul-kapur-9781496236784","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}