Amrita Chatterjee is the proud recipient of the only Bachelorette Degree in the country. She decided to become a writer when she realized that her years in dealing with rejection letters had turned her into an excellent judge of human suffering and pathos. As far genres go, she mainly deals with tragedy and how to bring it out in everyone around her. Even though Riverdancing to Dundee is her debut novel, it’s already being talked about as the next big ‘cold shock to the brain’.
Riverdancing to Dundee by Amrita Chatterjee
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Twenty-nine years old Modhumita is a crude drinker and abusive talker. She likes to hate and thinks of the world as the inside of a dog’s bollock. She has come a long way on the illegal side of being a model expat but predictably, she doesn’t give a fuck. Twenty-one years old Laurie was unfortunately born with a horror-vending-machine brain wherein mundane everyday things like a cat crossing a street appear to him as apocalypse now. When he is not fighting insomnia with a big fat joint, he can be found composing poetry in perfect iambic pentameter on his sturdy little desk. They both work alongside (but not together) at an ugly corporate chain bookstore in some godforsaken part of South London.
On a particularly dreary December morning, our two unwitting protagonists set out to work and within the course of the next twenty-four hours managed to mangle their lives beyond repair. Riverdancing to Dundee is a two-person account of this monumental day, which maybe interpreted as a coming-of-sense story or a Greek-style epic tragedy.
