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Burnt Sugar

Burnt Sugar

Doshi, Avni

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1419752936
ISBN13: 9781419752933
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: Mar 1 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar is a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.

I would be lying if I say my mother's misery has never given me pleasure, says Antara, Tara's now-adult daughter.

This is a love story and a story about betrayal--not between lovers but between a mother and a daughter. . . . In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, embarked on a stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing a disheveled, homeless artist, all with little Antara in tow.

But now Tara is forgetting things, and Antara is an adult--an artist and married--and must search for a way to make peace with a past that haunts her as she confronts the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.

Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds mother and daughter: Is Tara's memory loss real? Are Antara's memories fair? In vivid and visceral prose, Avni Doshi tells a story at once shocking and empathetic of a mother-daughter relationship and a daughter's search for self. A journey into shifting memories, altering identities, and the subjective nature of truth, Burnt Sugar is the stunning and unforgettable debut of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

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