Burnt Sugar
Author: Doshi, Avni
ISBN: 9780241989142
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 15mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with her young child in tow. Years on, she is an old woman with a fading memory, 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 mother who never seemed to care for her.
This is a poisoned love story. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar gradually untangles the knot of memory and myth that bind two women together, revealing the truth that lies beneath.
ISBN: 9780241989142
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 15mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with her young child in tow. Years on, she is an old woman with a fading memory, 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 mother who never seemed to care for her.
This is a poisoned love story. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar gradually untangles the knot of memory and myth that bind two women together, revealing the truth that lies beneath.
