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"In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, 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 woman who never cared for her. This is a love story and a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt…
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6 editions- Paperback · English · 2021Penguin · 9780241989142
- Hardcover · English · 2021The Overlook Press · 231 pages · 9781419752926
- Other · English · 2022Abrams, Inc. · 288 pages · 9781419752933
- Other · English · 2021Abrams, Inc. · 9781647002268
- Other · English · 2020Penguin Books, Limited · 240 pages · 9780241441510
- Other · English · 2020Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241989159
New York Times reviewedMothers and daughters, fictionIndia, fictionFiction, family lifeFiction, family life, generalMothers and daughtersFictionBetrayal





