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A debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal, which offers a fascinating and rare view behind the closed doors of modern middle class India. It was shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live First Book Award.
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.