Category: Fiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster India
Rights: Indian subcontinent rights available
Siyahi is a sub-agent for Transatlantic Agency
A speculative, coming-of-age campus novel that centers on best friends, Esai and Scheherazade, who are obsessed about the truth behind the drowned woman haunting St. Margaret’s and determined not to rest until the very foundations of the college are dismantled. The novel explores one’s rage and vulnerability, the power (both creative and destructive) of poetry and stardom, and the insidious ways in which bullying and misogyny infiltrate our lives to corrosive effect.
Esai arrives at St. Margaret’s, a college set in an atmospheric forest on the outskirts of Bombay, as a new student. Campus legend has it that a woman drowned in a forbidden lake somewhere in the woods, known as the Lake Woman, and her spirit haunts the place to this day. Esai befriends Scheherazade, another student that moonlights as a glamorous spoken word poet, who introduces her to a world of complicated relationships and political resistance. Esai suddenly finds herself in the midst of power struggles and new enemies. And then, Esai hears something she can never forget: A woman singing in the forbidden lake.
Before long, buried secrets rise to the surface, and some of them are deadly. Some of them want to kill.
For fans of Mona Awad and Megha Majumdar, Our Bones in Your Throat is a lyrical portrait of dreams and nightmares that highlights the violence of myth and rumor within the mundane. It illuminates the ravenous hunger for intimacy just as it highlights the beautiful nature of enduring female friendships.
The author: Megha Rao