Burnt Sugar was written by an author of Indian descent raised in the US. The book wasn't grounded in any reality and had elements of Wild Wild Country and The Girls by Emma Kline.

There were some moments of crisp writing in the form of sentences that you could unpack. That's probably what hooked me into this novel in the first place. However, a few interesting sentences when mixed with 98% of the text being either gratuitous or a caricature of reality is drivel.

After two attempts at this novel, I can't think of anyone I would recommend this to.