{"product_id":"inside-the-mirror","title":"Inside the Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 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\u003e When 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\u003e Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, Parul Kapur's \u003cem\u003eInside the Mirror\u003c\/em\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParul Kapur\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Assam, India, grew up in the United States, and lives in Atlanta. She is a fiction writer, journalist, and literary critic whose writing has appeared in a number of publications, including \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePleiades\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArt in America\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Kapur holds an MFA from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the Hambidge Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Parul Kapur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44443332739308,"sku":"9781496236784","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781496236784.jpg?v=1709487407","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/inside-the-mirror","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}