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:
Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible ThingsRead about another novel on the list.
The forty-year friendship between Edi and Ash is the kind of relationship we all want at death’s door. If terminal cancer is the diagnosis I am saddled with, as Edi is given in this book, then I want an Ash by my bedside.
To bring the memories, humor and eccentricity. My family will grieve with me, but I hope I have a best friend there to make me laugh and remind me of a lifetime of inside jokes.
In this book, Newman successfully captures the essence of what true friendship looks like, and she made me laugh out loud and sob in the same paragraph. An emotional release no romance novel has been able to achieve.
--Marshal Zeringue
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