Frontlist | In top-6, debut novelist Avni Doshi just missed 2020 Booker Prize

Frontlist | In top-6, debut novelist Avni Doshi just missed 2020 Booker Prize
on Nov 30, 2020

Indian American debut novelist Avni Doshi, who was among six authors shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction for her book, “Burnt Sugar,” did not make the cut. This year, one of the world’s most prestigious literary award went to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel, “Shuggie Bain.” The shortlist was selected from 162 submitted books. “Burnt Sugar” explores a complex relationship between a mother and a daughter. Doshi’s tale, said the judges, recounts a relationship where “filial resentment at a mother’s choice of an ashram and a free-love advocating guru over a more hands-on parenting still bubbles even as the mother’s mental faculties fade.”