Girl in white cotton: The cotton threads of a mother daughter relationship

Title: Girl in white cotton

Author: Avni Doshi

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

Nostalgia, Indian, female author, mother daughter relationship, the coming of age and Pune city. All my favorite themes. 

For long I had been wanting to read a good Indian fiction and this book was timed well. The journey of Antara with her mother and motherhood is the symbolic unfolding of a circular life. Many times the things that happen to you, set certain patterns for you, which play on repeat. You believe to do a better job than your parents but unknowingly you become their version. I loved how she shifts between reverie of nostalgia and the dilemmas of present. As you try to reject your past you also loose hope in future, both tied tightly, leaving one means losing both. 

And not to forget the lovely lines and quotes from the book:  

A low dose of something can be a panacea. A high dose can be fatal. I wish moderation were a comfortable state. 

Baba said, do not record history. They decide history. If there are no pictures of you, you never existed. 

The past seems to have a vigor that the present does not.  

The sun is still high in the sky and blazing thought the windows, turning the backs of by eyelids into kaleidoscopes.