Sarvat Hasin
"Touching, infuriating and painfully true, Strange Girls is a superlative novel by one of our most perceptive writers. Sarvat Hasin is an artist whose work demands to be read."
—Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea
Award-winning international author’s stunning US debut about two old friends who come back together over a feverish weekend and must confront what happened between them
A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. During the years of silence, Ava wasted her potential, while Aliya got the one thing they both wanted more than anything: a book deal. Forced to reunite over a mutual friend’s bachelorette in London, Ava returns to Aliya’s
doorstep, desperate to unpack the truth of what happened between them—and what they meant to each other.
When the two first met in the halls of their historic campus, their connection was electric. Aliya and Ava created a world of their own around the stories they wrote, influencing and borrowing from each other’s work. But when the end of college loomed and the real world began to pull them in opposite directions, Aliya learned that words hold less meaning than she thought.
Weaving together the friends’ past and present, Strange Girls is an ingenious portrait of a fraught friendship that poses the question of who has the right to tell whose story, exploring the ties that bind us and the scars left behind when they break.
—Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea
Award-winning international author’s stunning US debut about two old friends who come back together over a feverish weekend and must confront what happened between them
A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. During the years of silence, Ava wasted her potential, while Aliya got the one thing they both wanted more than anything: a book deal. Forced to reunite over a mutual friend’s bachelorette in London, Ava returns to Aliya’s
doorstep, desperate to unpack the truth of what happened between them—and what they meant to each other.
When the two first met in the halls of their historic campus, their connection was electric. Aliya and Ava created a world of their own around the stories they wrote, influencing and borrowing from each other’s work. But when the end of college loomed and the real world began to pull them in opposite directions, Aliya learned that words hold less meaning than she thought.
Weaving together the friends’ past and present, Strange Girls is an ingenious portrait of a fraught friendship that poses the question of who has the right to tell whose story, exploring the ties that bind us and the scars left behind when they break.
