The First House - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar
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The First House - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar
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Avni Doshi
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Avni Doshi
'Tender and cynical, poised between unknowing and knowing, The First House juxtaposes myths, rituals and its protagonist's life experience to probe the tragic interplay of marriage, betrayal and sacrifice in her life.' - Geetanjali Shree, International Booker Prize-winning author of Tomb of Sand
'The end days of a marriage are the beginning of a new life. In this story of rebirth, each page is sharp, piercing and totally defiant of the expected. I loved how bracing, unsentimental and beautifully written it is.'- Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
'Bare. Raw. Healing. The First House is a book that rips through all the layers with such honesty and precision, you're left naked, with nowhere to hide.'- Shubhangi Swarup, author of Latitudes of Longing
'I married my husband to live in a fairy tale ... We would be like planets orbiting the sun or gods enacting their myths. Marriage was a solution, and I wanted to be dissolved.'
A woman's husband walks into their bedroom one evening and tells her he wants a divorce. She is stunned. They have always had a happy marriage - or so she believed. In the days that follow, marooned with two young daughters in a suburb that has never quite felt like home, she begins coming apart.
As she sifts through the ruins of the life she had shared with her husband, she begins to notice the warning signs she chose not to see the first time around. She wanders deep into the forest of her own mind, where marital memories intermingle with myths of headless women and vengeful goddesses, messages hidden in the constellations and altars stained with blood. Over the course of a single summer, as two broods of cicadas prepare to emerge at once and fill the air with a plague of ecstatic transformation, she too is splitting, liquifying and reforming, stretching her new antennae towards the light.
In The First House, Avni Doshi has written a stiletto-sharp and darkly hypnotic novel about the self that survives when a marriage does not - and the long, necessary labour of breaking open into something new.