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Girl in White Cotton
by Avni Doshi
'Girl In White Cotton' by Avni Doshi - longlisted for Booker Prize 2020.
The story of a girl, Antara, from an out-and-out dysfunctional family. The theme of 'white cotton' revolves around her impression of the white cotton clothing her mum dressed in during the most delirious phase of her childhood. The illusion of the white cotton gets registered at a tender age. Antara has a depressingly traumatizing childhood.
We keep mothers on a high pedestal and can never allow the mother visionary to be destroyed. Antara unfortunately has a pathological upbringing. Her mother, Tara, a psychopath, has single-handedly destroyed her childhood. The sadistic parenting traumatized Antara for life. She becomes misguided, not within her bearings. Makes poor choices in life. Messed up sexual rendezvous, unhealthy relationships, unstable jobs, has an obssessive doodling on any material, compulsive jotting down of notes making irrational connections between scientific experiments and actual medical diagnoses and got married to a weirdo who is sterile in his views and diet.
Antara is stuck in a vicious cycle, unable to break free from it therefore going in convoluted circles at the same time getting sucked into a mental abyss. She has fragmented visions which can be quite random. She vividly animates the white noises around her. Some of them are putrefying actually. All she has ever met are toxic characters, they were always bad news. This is in direct relation or the inevitable consequence of being stuck in a vicious cycle.
The mother character apparently claims she has a degenerative memory. Becomes incoherent and delirious so playing the role of an elderly, ill mother in front of an audience. On the other hand, threatening her daughter maliciously when both are left alone. There are flashbacks of her mother's delusional love with deranged men.
Antara feels like she's drowning into a bottomless dread. She has internalized hurt and abuse so much that her mind only recognizes the ugly sights happening around her. Her relentless abandonments led her to thinks she's not wanted or accepted and she isn't normal. She starts feeling invisible to her husband, grandmother, father, and friends whenever her mother is present. This is an abusive mother-daughter relationship.
Antara has a mangled mind. She needs help and this story is her cry for help. She was a child that was broken apart mercilessly.
Tara could be playing the most sadistic and devious game to manipulate her own daughter Antara. No credible medical diagnosis to confirm any illness. And an overplayed Indian mother sentiment by her family members. Antara is clearly outplayed and outcast by them.This of course comes as a rude shock to many readers. You'd be conflicted (that's the intent of the story). But the truth is bitter. The story concludes well. Let you believe what you wish to believe.
A depressing story of how Antara is trying to be 'Un-tara'. This connotation could be understood only by reading this book. Captivating psycho-thriller one which you can't resist reading.
P.S: "All I know is that a certain kind of madness comes over you when you are locked within walls with so many women". I totally agree on this one.
The story of a girl, Antara, from an out-and-out dysfunctional family. The theme of 'white cotton' revolves around her impression of the white cotton clothing her mum dressed in during the most delirious phase of her childhood. The illusion of the white cotton gets registered at a tender age. Antara has a depressingly traumatizing childhood.
We keep mothers on a high pedestal and can never allow the mother visionary to be destroyed. Antara unfortunately has a pathological upbringing. Her mother, Tara, a psychopath, has single-handedly destroyed her childhood. The sadistic parenting traumatized Antara for life. She becomes misguided, not within her bearings. Makes poor choices in life. Messed up sexual rendezvous, unhealthy relationships, unstable jobs, has an obssessive doodling on any material, compulsive jotting down of notes making irrational connections between scientific experiments and actual medical diagnoses and got married to a weirdo who is sterile in his views and diet.
Antara is stuck in a vicious cycle, unable to break free from it therefore going in convoluted circles at the same time getting sucked into a mental abyss. She has fragmented visions which can be quite random. She vividly animates the white noises around her. Some of them are putrefying actually. All she has ever met are toxic characters, they were always bad news. This is in direct relation or the inevitable consequence of being stuck in a vicious cycle.
The mother character apparently claims she has a degenerative memory. Becomes incoherent and delirious so playing the role of an elderly, ill mother in front of an audience. On the other hand, threatening her daughter maliciously when both are left alone. There are flashbacks of her mother's delusional love with deranged men.
Antara feels like she's drowning into a bottomless dread. She has internalized hurt and abuse so much that her mind only recognizes the ugly sights happening around her. Her relentless abandonments led her to thinks she's not wanted or accepted and she isn't normal. She starts feeling invisible to her husband, grandmother, father, and friends whenever her mother is present. This is an abusive mother-daughter relationship.
Antara has a mangled mind. She needs help and this story is her cry for help. She was a child that was broken apart mercilessly.
Tara could be playing the most sadistic and devious game to manipulate her own daughter Antara. No credible medical diagnosis to confirm any illness. And an overplayed Indian mother sentiment by her family members. Antara is clearly outplayed and outcast by them.This of course comes as a rude shock to many readers. You'd be conflicted (that's the intent of the story). But the truth is bitter. The story concludes well. Let you believe what you wish to believe.
A depressing story of how Antara is trying to be 'Un-tara'. This connotation could be understood only by reading this book. Captivating psycho-thriller one which you can't resist reading.
P.S: "All I know is that a certain kind of madness comes over you when you are locked within walls with so many women". I totally agree on this one.