Tuesday Intro

I’m back with another entry for, First Chapter, First Paragraph Tuesday Intros. Thank you to Yvonne, from Socrates’ Book Reviews who hosts this meme. As a reminder this is your chance to post a bit from a book that you are reading or planning to read. My entry comes from a book I’ve recently started.

“I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure. I suffered at her hands as a child, and any pain she subsequently endured appeared to me to be a kind of redemption – a rebalancing of the universe, where the rational order of cause and effect aligned. But now, I can’t even the tally between us. The reason is simple: my mother is forgetting, and there is nothing I can do about it.”

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi

This book was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and tells the story of a difficult mother-daughter relationship. Here’s a bit more from the publisher’s blurb:

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.

I get the feeling this will be an uncomfortable and/or difficult read but I have heard a lot of great reviews about this one so I’m looking forward to seeing how this story develops.

What about you, what do you think, would you read some more or not for you? Or if you have read it, let me know what you thought.