Of Mothers and Melancholia

Released in the West as , Avni Doshi’s disrupts and delights in equal measure. Sometimes dark, forever unsettling, the novel unquestionably deserves its place on the Booker long-list. Doshi, for her part, feels “tremendous gratitude” to have been included. “There really is no guarantee that a book will get noticed, especially a debut novel. I feel lucky that my book is reaching readers, I think that is the reception all writers want,” she says over email from Dubai. The Booker shortlist will be announced