I always tell the authors to make subjective, qualitative decisions. So many of my authors say no to higher offers from publishing houses if they don’t feel comfortable with the publisher or editor.
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Book World: Like blood, bile is also thicker than water
Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Jan. 19, 2021
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Avni Doshi s debut novel has cut a slow but inexorable path around the world, dazzling readers in country after country. Girl in White Cotton was first published in 2019 in India, the birthplace of Doshi s parents. Last year, the novel - retitled Burnt Sugar - was published in the United Kingdom, where it was named a finalist for the Booker Prize. And now, trailing clouds of international praise, it has finally arrived in the United States. Burnt Sugar is a work of extraordinary insight, courage and sophistication. It is also the world s worst Mother s Day present.
Fiction can tell the real truth about mothers and daughters – and what lies between them
Four novels that visit the anger, resentment, and frustration – and love – in this particular relationship.
In Madhuri Vijay’s award-winning novel,
The Far Field, the thirty-year old narrator, Shalini, begins with an admission – six years ago, a man from the mountains vanished in part because of what she said and did. Before she explains how this came to pass, she points the reader to a possible genesis for this story – she is her mother’s daughter. “Was. Am. All else flows from that.”
As the novel progresses, it becomes clear that there are a number of unfortunate collisions, errors in judgment and socio-historical circumstances that lead to the calamity in the end. But to the narrator, her conflicted love for her mother has driven this particular thread through the needle – “It’s hard not to wonder how much might have been prevented if only I had loved [my father]