Megha Majumdar- A Burning

A BURNING is about three characters whose lives become entwined after a terrorist attack in India. It is taut, electrifying, and dazzling. “I started writing A Burning from a place of alarm and anger,” says Megha Majumdar, “I saw a world changing in frightening ways, growing more intolerant of minority communities and more extremist, and I wanted to look at individuals caught within those turns of society.” Megha grew up in Kolkata, India and studied social anthropology at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is currently an editor at Catapult. Her novel is rooted in history and place and written with an indelible care for her characters. A Burning is a page-turner about accusation and betrayal, innocence and guilt, longing and love.