Avni Doshi

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, and 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...

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar comes a gripping psychodrama of unravelling and rebirth. A woman's husband walks into their bedroom one evening and tells her that he wants a divorce. She is stunned. They have always had a happy marriage, an almost perfect marriage. In the following days, marooned with two young daughters in a hostile suburb,...