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THE BRAND NEW York City Gracie E book Club's inaugural get, this radiant debut novel set in Brooklyn and Bangladesh uses three young women and a family group struggling to make calmness with secrets and their recent. For so long as she can remember, Ella has longed to feel at home. Orphaned as a kid after her parents' murder and suffering from hallucinations at night, she has always believed more at ease in aspect than with people. She traveled from Bangladesh to Brooklyn to live with the Saleems: her uncle Anwar, aunt Hashi, and their beautiful girl, Charu, her complete opposite. One summer months, when Ella results home from school, she discovers Charu's good friend Maya - an Islamic cleric's runaway girl - asleep in her bedroom. As the girls have a summer months of clandestine experience and intimate awakenings, Anwar, who owns a popular botanical apothecary, has his own secrets, threatening his 30-year marriage. However when tragedy hits, the Saleems end up blamed. To keep his family from unraveling, Anwar calls for them on the fated visit to Bangladesh to reckon with the past, their prolonged family, and one another.