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
Like Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage or Ferrante's Days of Abandonment,The First House is at times brutal and harrowing, with sentences and scenes sharpened to a dagger point. But it is ...
Amina Cain, author of 'Indelicacy'
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
Like Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage or Ferrante's Days of Abandonment,The First House is at times brutal and harrowing, with sentences and scenes sharpened to a dagger point. But it is ...
Amina Cain, author of 'Indelicacy'
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
Like Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage or Ferrante's Days of Abandonment,The First House is at times brutal and harrowing, with sentences and scenes sharpened to a dagger point. But it is ...
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.
