Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, 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 stin...

“Each page is sharp, piercing, and totally defiant of the expected.” —Douglas Stuart“[A] beautiful book that delights in resisting its readers’ expectations.” —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling authorFrom the Booker Prize finalist author of Burnt Sugar comes a riveting and lyrical novel of rupture and rebirth, of one woman’s journey to understand the fault lines in her marriage, her home, and her family.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020, AND PUBLISHED IN THE UK AS BURNT SUGARUtterly compelling, complex, unflinching realism - sometimes emotionally wrenching but also cathartic, written with poignancy and memorability. - The Booker Prize Judges 2020Avni Doshi is a writer of surgical precision and sharp intelligence. This novel of mother-and-daughter resentments and the deep, intimate cuts of ancient family history gleams like a bl...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal“I would be lying if I said 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 (mostl...

“Each page is sharp, piercing, and totally defiant of the expected.” —Douglas Stuart“[A] beautiful book that delights in resisting its readers’ expectations.” —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling authorFrom the Booker Prize finalist author of Burnt Sugar comes a riveting and lyrical novel of rupture and rebirth, of one woman’s journey to understand the fault lines in her marriage, her home, and her family.