For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.
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 novel, Burnt Sugar, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. The novel is published in India as Girl in White Cotton, where it won the Sushila Devi Award 2021.
An unsettling, sinewy debut, startling in its venom and disarming
in its humour from the very first sentence
Extraordinary. Exquisitely written, painfully exhilarating,
impossible to put down... An elegant family story that sizzles with
hatred... Come for the effortlessly stylish writing, stay for the
boiling wrath
*Observer*
Arresting and fiercely intelligent, disarmingly witty and frank...
Horror stories from the past seep into the present, as Doshi builds
her portrait of a fractured mother-daughter relationship
*Sunday Times*
A masterclass. Crisp, engaging, perfectly tragic in the way that
families often tend to be... Doshi writes sharply, in no-nonsense
prose, not a single sentence in the book can be omitted... Avni
Doshi is a force to watch out for in the literary world
*Scroll*
A corrosive, compulsive debut
*Sunday Telegraph (five stars)*
Subtle, intelligent, thrilling, visceral
This caustic tale of a destructive mother-daughter bond is as
potent as its title might suggest... It bristles with sharp, chilly
aphorisms... Doshi's visceral debut is a no-holds-barred excavation
of how hate can both poison and sustain
*Daily Mail*
Scouringly brilliant, a blazing debut that sticks in the mind like
caramel blackened to the bottom of a pan... Doshi draws our
relationships, both with the truth and with other people, with
words that glitter sharp as shards of broken mirror
*Buro.*
When does self-determination become selfishness? What can you learn
from a bad mother? ...Sorrowful, sceptical and electrifyingly
truthful about mothers and daughters
*Guardian*
A sly, slippery, often heartbreaking novel about the role memory
plays within families
*Stylist*
A raw, vividly described exploration of the toxic relationship
between two women who are forever bound together
*Good Housekeeping*
Burnt Sugar straddles the line between pain and beauty. It makes
the stomach churn. And, like all great literature, it prompts the
question of the reader: is this you?
*Bad Form*
Acerbic, full of wit and cool intelligence - every sentence is a
coiled spring and each psychological portrait burns itself into the
mind. I couldn't put it down
Daring and deliciously dark, Burnt Sugar will keep you gripped
until the very last sentence
Raw, wise and cuttingly funny on love and cruelty, marriage and
motherhood, art and illness, and one woman's fight for her sense of
self
Avni Doshi quietly, cleanly, slices through the heart... Impeccably
insightful, carved from love, rage, and grief, here all
embellishment is discarded, all artifice shorn - motherhood,
family, memory, language - to reveal something devastating about
our relationships, with ourselves and with those closest to us
*Janice Pariat, author of 'The Nine-Chambered Heart'*
A brilliant debut, about mothers and daughters, that manages be
acerbic and brittle all at the same time
A courageous novel written in spare, gleaming sentences. It made me
hold my breath and gather it up again
*Tishani Doshi, author of 'Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods'*
Beautifully grotesque, vivid, unexpected. Doshi knows her
characters so intimately I felt I could reach out and touch the
skin they're in
*Diksha Basu, author of 'The Windfall'*
Crystalline, surgical, compulsively readable. An examination of
toxic relationships and the ties that bind us
A disturbing tale of memory and forgetfulness, questioning the
relevance and the authenticity of both
*Indian Express*
Taut, unsettling, ferocious
Avni Doshi writes fearlessly, with a cruel, almost terrifying
intelligence. I was discomfited and exhilarated
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