03/08/2026
Six years after Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi is back — and she hasn’t lost an ounce of her edge.
The First House begins with a marriage ending, and unfolds into one strange, shimmering summer of myths, memory, and cicadas shedding their old skins. It’s about what remains of you when the life you built comes apart — and the slow, wild work of becoming someone new.
Geetanjali Shree calls it “a timeless tale of all women.” We call it the book we’ll be pressing into hands all month.
On our shelves now, and at readersparadise.co. Come see that cover in person — it glows. 🦋
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