In the follow-up to the Booker-shortlisted Burnt Sugar, a woman seeks liberation from her controlling relationships Avni Doshi’s second novel is narrated by an unnamed woman in the suburban US who is shocked to hear her husband announce that he is leaving her. She isn’t in love with him, exactly...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/15/the-first-house-by-avni-doshi-review-an-intense-portrait-of-marriage-and-freedom)

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