And I am The Arrow – Pia Ghosh-Roy

Description

A compulsive saga of three generations of women and the ghost of a man cut in two on a train track, spanning Calcutta, London and New York.

Chatterjee Mansion is a 1940s art-deco house in Calcutta with floors of polished marble and rooms filled with lies and omissions. In this house, late on a rainsoaked night, the turn of a single key unlocks a story that throws its women on a journey across the worlds of the living and the dead, and shatters all they know to be true.

Trying to make sense of this world is Mishu, a young woman recently returned to India, just as Niyoti, her grandmother and the family matriarch, falls into a coma. As Mishu, her mother Ira, and their servant Bani wait to see if Niyoti wakes or leaves them forever, long-buried truths come to the surface, revealing a kaleidoscopic tale of survival, forbidden love and wasted ambition.

Narrated by the women and the ghost who haunts them all, And I Am the Arrow is an exploration of death and grief, of memory and reality, and of the ways we love and bruise each other.