Generational Trauma in Avni Doshi’s Booker Prize Finalist “Burnt Sugar” – Chicago Review of Books

Generational Trauma in Avni Doshi’s Booker Prize Finalist “Burnt Sugar” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “My mother is forgetting, and there is nothing I can do about it. There is no way to make her remember the things she has done in the past, no way to baste her in guilt.” With this, we are thrust into the cruel, callous, complicated world of Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar, a world … Read more

Generational Trauma and Reconciliation in “Transcendent Kingdom” – Chicago Review of Books

Generational Trauma and Reconciliation in “Transcendent Kingdom” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It is said that no two people ever read the same book. Our personal history goes a long way in determining the points of references that resonate with us in a story. This is especially true for my time with Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, since so much of what resonates with me about … Read more