The First House dissects the tyranny of family with surgical precision, unsparing in its depiction of the delusions of marriage and motherhood - the novel boils with brutal insight. Avni Doshi is among the ...
Katie Kitamura, author of 'Audition'
Sharply intelligent, richly allegorical, unsparing psychodrama... An eviscerating study of the quiet violence of domestic discord, and the search for a new freedom
The Bookseller (Editor's Choice)
Taut and deliberate, punctuated by flashes of unsettling clarity... Doshi excels at rendering the interior life in all its contradictions, allowing tenderness and irritation, longing and resentment, to coexis ...
The New York Times Style Magazine: MENA
The First House dissects the tyranny of family with surgical precision, unsparing in its depiction of the delusions of marriage and motherhood - the novel boils with brutal insight. Avni Doshi is among the ...
Katie Kitamura, author of 'Audition'
Sharply intelligent, richly allegorical, unsparing psychodrama... An eviscerating study of the quiet violence of domestic discord, and the search for a new freedom
The Bookseller (Editor's Choice)
Taut and deliberate, punctuated by flashes of unsettling clarity... Doshi excels at rendering the interior life in all its contradictions, allowing tenderness and irritation, longing and resentment, to coexis ...
The New York Times Style Magazine: MENA
The First House dissects the tyranny of family with surgical precision, unsparing in its depiction of the delusions of marriage and motherhood - the novel boils with brutal insight. Avni Doshi is among the ...
Katie Kitamura, author of 'Audition'
Sharply intelligent, richly allegorical, unsparing psychodrama... An eviscerating study of the quiet violence of domestic discord, and the search for a new freedom
The Bookseller (Editor's Choice)
Taut and deliberate, punctuated by flashes of unsettling clarity... Doshi excels at rendering the interior life in all its contradictions, allowing tenderness and irritation, longing and resentment, to coexis ...
From moving memoirs of Muslim life to captivating novels about identity and family, these are must-read books from some of today’s best South Asian authors.
