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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD

PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY the Guardian, Economist, Spectator, NPR and more...

“Avni Doshi isn’t just a talented writer, she is an artist.” The New York Times

“Avni Doshi pursues this psychological dependency to depths few writers would be brave enough to fathom.” The Washington Post

"This has the heft and expansiveness of a classic 19th-century novel." Publishers Weekly

“A corrosive, compulsive debut.” Sunday Telegraph (*****)

“A landmark portrait of toxic parenting and its tangled aftermath.” Kirkus (starred review)

"Extraordinary. Exquisitely written, painfully exhilarating, impossible to put down... Come for the effortlessly stylish writing, stay for the boiling wrath.” Observer