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Tanwi Nandini Islam is the author of Bright Lines (Penguin 2015), a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the inaugural selection of the First Lady of NYC's Gracie Book Club. Nandini Islam is the founder of Hi Wildflower Botanica, a small-batch perfume and candle line. A graduate of Brooklyn College MFA and Vassar College, she lives in Brooklyn, NY. ...more

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	Bright Lines 3.58 avg rating — 1,406 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Sensorium: Notes for My People – A Bangladeshi Muslim Perfumer's Kirkus Prize-Winning Memoir of Scent and Liberation by Tanaïs (Goodreads Author), Tanwi Nandini Islam (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rise Speak Change: The 2017 Girls Write Now Anthology by Girls Write Now, Molly Macdermot (Editor), Lisa Lucas (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Each seed tells this story: Everything that happens is already written.”
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