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 rain-soaked 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. And I Am The Arrow is a kaleidoscopic tale of flight and survival, of forbidden love and wasted ambition, and secrets that hide in plain sight. 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 rich and dramatic story of India’s social and political struggles entwined with the family’s gains and sacrifices. 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. Praise ‘A gripping intergenerational story of wide compass and deep compassion. I enjoyed it enormously.‘ — Jo Baker, author of The Midnight News and Longbourn ‘To read this book is to feel as alive as a ghost, seeing, noticing, smelling, hearing lives that a jaded world renders subsonic. This is a desperately life-loving novel. I’ll read it again, now.‘ — Sumana Roy, author of How I Became a Tree ‘Set in old Calcutta, London, and New York, this intense intergenerational saga is told in many voices with passion and sparkling wit, as well as the foreboding of tragedy and the ghosts of the past.‘ — Namita Gokhale, author of Things to Leave Behind and The Blind Matriarch
