{"product_id":"inside-the-mirror","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 one of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45786854129711,"sku":"9781496236784","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_cd7e6a98-78c9-405f-a461-85080d95fdf9.jpg?v=1786145007","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/inside-the-mirror","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}