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In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. It becomes an icon for millions, winning acclaim and prizes - and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's best friend, who has suffered a tragedy of her own. With the flash of a camera, one girl's life is shattered and another's is altered forever.

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Wild . . . genuinely subversive * * New Yorker * *
A tour de force * * Los Angeles Review of Books * *
Intensely corporeal, potently feminist, tenaciously written * * Boston Globe * *
Lidia Yuknavitch burns through sex, art, and war * * Vanity Fair * *
Explosive . . . with a vital intensity that grabs at the gutstrings * * Los Angeles Times * *
Beautifully examines the fractures of loss and the myriad ways we can recover from it . . . A wild ride * * Huffington Post * *
I have never felt so wrung out by a novel and yet simultaneously invigorated . . . A terrifically good novel and powerfully written * * Paris Review * *
[An example] of thrilling storytelling with universal appeal * * Entertainment Weekly * *
This is a novel for the bold of heart * * New York Journal of Books * *
Masterful . . . Promises to stay on the skin long after the reader has turned the last page . . . Tightly wound, pacy and provocative * * Irish Independent * *

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      Publisher: Canongate Books
      Publication Date: 02/01/2020
      ISBN13: 9781786892430, 978-1786892430
      ISBN10: 178689243X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. It becomes an icon for millions, winning acclaim and prizes - and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's best friend, who has suffered a tragedy of her own. With the flash of a camera, one girl's life is shattered and another's is altered forever.

      Trade Review
      Wild . . . genuinely subversive * * New Yorker * *
      A tour de force * * Los Angeles Review of Books * *
      Intensely corporeal, potently feminist, tenaciously written * * Boston Globe * *
      Lidia Yuknavitch burns through sex, art, and war * * Vanity Fair * *
      Explosive . . . with a vital intensity that grabs at the gutstrings * * Los Angeles Times * *
      Beautifully examines the fractures of loss and the myriad ways we can recover from it . . . A wild ride * * Huffington Post * *
      I have never felt so wrung out by a novel and yet simultaneously invigorated . . . A terrifically good novel and powerfully written * * Paris Review * *
      [An example] of thrilling storytelling with universal appeal * * Entertainment Weekly * *
      This is a novel for the bold of heart * * New York Journal of Books * *
      Masterful . . . Promises to stay on the skin long after the reader has turned the last page . . . Tightly wound, pacy and provocative * * Irish Independent * *

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