Burnt Sugar: A Novel

"How do you take care of a parent who failed to take care of you? Burnt Sugar (also published as Girl in White Cotton) is, at its core, a love story: Mother Tara chooses a life that comes at an appallingly neglectful cost to her daughter Antara. Thirty years later, Tara has developed dementia, and adult Antara takes her in and grapples with whether and how to forgive. I read Burnt Sugar with awe, fury and compassion, electrified by the question of whether time does heal all wounds, and whether it even should."