{"product_id":"inside-the-mirror-a-novel-awp-prize-for-the-novel","title":"Inside the Mirror: A Novel (AWP Prize for the Novel)","description":"Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel\nWinner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award\nWinner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Award\nLonglisted for the Center for Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize\nLonglisted for the 2024 New American Voices Award\nHonorable Mention for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Literary Fiction\nFinalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Multicultural Fiction\nWinner of the 2024 American Fiction Award in Literary Fiction\nFinalist for the 2024 American Fiction Award in Multicultural Fiction\nNamed a Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024\n\nIn 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.\nWhen 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.\nWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, Parul Kapur’s Inside the Mirror 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1496236785\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1496236785.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kapur, Parul\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41499588919354,"sku":"DBV.1496236785.G","price":6.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1496236785-0.jpg?v=1783037320","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/inside-the-mirror-a-novel-awp-prize-for-the-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}