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It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beck's Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43566142292034,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/9781250835048-l.jpg?v=1775684178"},{"product_id":"the-association-of-small-bombs","title":"The Association of Small Bombs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNational Book Award \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Bard Fiction Prize\u003cbr\u003eOne of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s Ten Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGranta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s Best Young American Novelists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Fiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003ePEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eSimpson Family Literary Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe FT\/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBuzzfeed, Esquire,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e magazine, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe AV Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Fader\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRedbook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBustle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGood magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePureWow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePopSugar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Wonderful. . . . 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Post haste.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Fiona Maazel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Brilliant.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSam Sacks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“[Mahajan’s] eagerness to go at the bomb from every angle suggests a voracious approach to fiction-making.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most celebrated novels of recent years, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Association of Small Bombs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in its empathy, dazzling in its acuity, and ambitious in scope\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family’s television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. 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