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Below isBurnt SugarauthorAvni Doshis list.
This novel, about the slow disintegration of a marriage, is beautifully and delicately handled.
The characters are unforgettable glamorous and deeply flawed.
I always feel I am learning how to write when I read Salter.
His prose is masterful.
There is something intimate about Anais Nins writing that pulls me in.
I love this story about a woman on a path of sexual (and self-) exploration.
I had never heard of moon-bathing until I read this novel.
Now I do it every month.
A woman stops eating meat in an attempt to become more vegetal.
It sounded simple enough, but this book triggered me so intensely that I almost didnt like it.
The exploration of violence, shame, and escapism completely destabilized me.
I returned to it later because I couldnt stop thinking about it.
Complex and deeply subversive.
And from there, it just rose in intensity.
I experience something visceral when I read Marias.
He clearly understands how language moves through the body.
I had never heard of Fleur Jaeggy until this year, and now I cant get enough of her.
This book is about 100 pages long and as polished as a diamond.
I read it in one sitting and was breathless by the end.
I have since returned to his stories and am always struck by the grim humor that peeks through.
I know everyone lovesThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, butLoitering With Intentis my favorite Muriel Spark novel.
A friend of mine introduced me to Deborah Levy while we were doing a fellowship in the U.K.
The novel has a surreal quality, like looking through the surface of water.
In Levys deft hands, anxiety spreads through the pages of the novel, and everyone is susceptible.
Characters that once seemed intact begin to unravel.
This book has probably influenced me more than any other work of fiction that I have read.
How could a book be at once comfortingly familiar and completely new?
This meditation on race, class, and family is something I return to again and again.
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