# Burnt Sugar

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- Book: [Burnt Sugar](https://www.bookquiver.com/avni-doshi/burnt-sugar) ([Burnt Sugar.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/avni-doshi/burnt-sugar.md))
- Authors: [Avni Doshi](https://www.bookquiver.com/avni-doshi)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-914-2
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2021-06-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.