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.
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Avni Doshi nació en New Jersey, Estados Unidos. Estudió Arte en el Barnard College en Nueva York y luego Historia en la University College de Londres. Volvió a la India, el país de sus padres, para ser curadora de arte durante cinco años, antes de decidir dedicarse enteramente a la escritura. Azúcar quemado es su primera novela y ha logrado entrar en la Shortlist del Booker 2020.