Girl In White Cotton Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi by Avni Doshi 9789353571382, 9353571383, B07V1ZF34G instant download after payment.

Sharp as a blade and laced with Avni Doshi’s caustic wit, this is a story about love and betrayal. Not between lovers - between mother and daughter.

In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless ‘artist’ - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid’s wages and leaving the gas on all night - and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.  "I would be lying if I say my mother's misery has never given me pleasure," says Antara, Tara's now-adult daughter.

Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds mother and daughter. In vivid and visceral prose, Avni Doshi tells a story, at once shocking and empathetic, about love and betrayal between a mother and a daughter. A journey into shifting memories, altering identities, and the subjective nature of truth, Burnt Sugar is a stunning and unforgettable debut.

'This utterly compelling read examines a complex and unusual mother-daughter relationship with honest, unflinching realism – sometimes emotionally wrenching but also cathartic, written with poignancy and memorability.’   -  2020 Booker Prize Judges

Longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize For Fiction

Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey in 1982 and is currently based in Dubai. She won the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2014. Her debut title Girl in White Cotton.