Booker 2020: Portrait of a toxic mother-daughter relationship

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Avni Doshi began her debut novel Burnt Sugar eight years ago.

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Writing about postpartum depression did not prepare Avni Doshi, 37, for actually experiencing it.
"I didn't know I had postpartum depression," says the mother of a son, two, and a newborn daughter.

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