Vivid and vigorous, precise and unsparingly truthful . . . Once again Avni Doshi gives us a woman on the edge and a dreadful sense of the horror that lies, not entirely dormant, in the domestic
Financial Times
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'
Dense and alert, distinct and dreamlike, Avni Doshi takes a single intimate relationship and excavates it… Its core experience [is] that of a woman embroiled in the harrowing process of extracting herself fro ...
Guardian
Vivid and vigorous, precise and unsparingly truthful . . . Once again Avni Doshi gives us a woman on the edge and a dreadful sense of the horror that lies, not entirely dormant, in the domestic
Financial Times
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'
Dense and alert, distinct and dreamlike, Avni Doshi takes a single intimate relationship and excavates it… Its core experience [is] that of a woman embroiled in the harrowing process of extracting herself fro ...
Guardian
Vivid and vigorous, precise and unsparingly truthful . . . Once again Avni Doshi gives us a woman on the edge and a dreadful sense of the horror that lies, not entirely dormant, in the domestic
Financial Times
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'
Dense and alert, distinct and dreamlike, Avni Doshi takes a single intimate relationship and excavates it… Its core experience [is] that of a woman embroiled in the harrowing process of extracting herself fro ...
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.
