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.
About the Author
Pia Ghosh-Roy grew up in Calcutta and lives in Cambridge, UK. She worked in advertising as a copywriter for over a decade before turning to fiction. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Ambit, Craft, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip, and other journals and anthologies. She received the 2017 Hamlin Garland Award and the 2019 Cagibi Macaron Prize, and has been short- and longlisted for the Brighton Prize, Bath Short Story Award, Berlin Writing Prize and Fish Short Story Prize. And I Am the Arrow is her debut novel.
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