the year by Harper’s Bazaar and Elle. She received a master’s in creative writing at University College Dublin, where she was mentored by Booker Prize winner Anne Enright. She has been shortlisted for the DNA Short Story Prize, and her poetry and short stories have appeared in The Incubator Journal, The Galway Review, Cultured Vultures, and HeadStuff. Her travel pieces have appeared in The Economic Times and Coldnoon. Bose was born and raised in India and now lives in Ireland with her husband and daughter.
Her new novel is I Will Blossom Anyway.
At Lit Hub Bose tagged five titles that explore and center female friendship, including:
RF Kuang, YellowfaceRead about the other entries on the list.
In most romances, the bad boy is desirable, a part of the fantasy. In books about friendship, the bad girl is someone you have your guard up against.This is a far more realistic lesson to learn from a book, than pining for a soulmate who will probably never meet all your emotional needs.
In Yellowface, June and Athena, both aspiring writers, have been friends since college. Their friendship is based on intense rivalry and envy, and their dynamic felt so real while I read this book, that it seemed like only a heightened version of what most women have experienced in their own lives with their female friends.
There is something delicious about rooting for the un-happy ending of all the characters in a book.
Yellowface is among Taylor Hutton's five top novels with tantalizing anti-heroes, Elizabeth Staple's eight books about youthful mistakes that come back to haunt you, Lauren Kuhl's eight top novels about toxic relationships, Elly Griffiths's top ten books about books, Toby Lloyd's seven books that show storytelling has consequences, Sophie Wan's seven top titles with women behaving badly, Leah Konen's six top friends-to-frenemies thrillers, and Garnett Cohen's seven novels about characters driven by their cravings.
--Marshal Zeringue
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