{"product_id":"the-first-house-4863","title":"The First House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize finalist author of \u003ci\u003eBurnt Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e comes a riveting and lyrical novel of rupture and rebirth, of one woman's journey to understand the fault lines in her marriage, her home, and her family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Each page is sharp, piercing, and totally defiant of the expected.\" --\u003c\/b\u003eDouglas Stuart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen my husband comes into the bedroom we have shared for thirteen years and tells me he doesn't want to be married anymore, I reach for my neck. My head is missing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA husband announces he is leaving, that he was never happy. A woman is left behind with their two children in the house they built together, reeling at this forced recasting of the story of their marriage. Everything becomes strange: an encounter at the grocery store, a looming cicada horde, a statue of Diana that suddenly appears in her neighbor's yard. Or was it always there?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs she wades through the aftermath of her marriage, her complicated family resurfaces. Although close to her parents, her relationship with them is strained, and she is fully estranged from her older sister--the perfect daughter--who still lives at home and always disapproved of her husband. So when did the trouble begin? And where will she go from here?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she was a child, an astrologer in India told her parents that the family would die in water. Ever since, they've avoided pools and lakes and the ocean; no one ever learned to swim. From the Booker finalist and beloved author of the \"viscerally poetic\" ( \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) \u003ci\u003eBurnt Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e comes a brilliant story of betrayal, renunciation, and renewal, of a woman spiraling who swims to the other side and comes up for air.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Avni Doshi\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New Jersey and lives in Dubai. She has a BA in art history from Barnard College in New York and a master's in history of art from University College London. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBritish Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London). Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eBurnt Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e, was originally released in India under the title \u003ci\u003eGirl in White Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e, where it won the Sushila Devi Award. Upon publication in the UK, \u003ci\u003eBurnt Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e became a finalist for the Booker Prize. It was also longlisted for the Women's Prize, became a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award, was selected as one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year, and was named a Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Economist, The Spectator, \u003c\/i\u003eand NPR. \u003ci\u003eBurnt Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e has been published in twenty-six languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Avni Doshi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68068598776093,"sku":"9781668204863","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781668204863.jpg?v=1794516823","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/the-first-house-4863","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}