Burnt Sugar Illustrated by Mark Hoffman

Burnt Sugar Illustrated by Mark HoffmanShortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Avni Doshis Burnt Sugar is a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. I would be lying if I say my mothers misery has never given me pleasure, says Antara, Taras now adult daughter. This is a love story and a story about betrayalnot between lovers but between a mother and a daughter. . . . In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to

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In this appealing picture book

starting with the sun at the center before moving outward to each of the eight planets—featuring illustrations by Alyssa Nassner

and a sense of effortless beauty

founder Jason Wang and his father

He still misses his dad

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” and not thinking of a birthday as a party

the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize

to name a few

which surround his life