What do you do when the life you thought you understood suddenly stops making sense?

In The First House, Avni Doshi weaves together marriage, motherhood, astrology, a Greek goddess, and the search for meaning when life begins to unravel.

For the Season 2 finale of The Reading List, we sit down with the Booker-nominated author to talk about the stories we tell ourselves, the patterns we inherit, and the things we turn to when certainty disappears.

It’s a conversation about starting over, without necessarily leaving everything behind.