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A session with two debut novels that address the self as both subject and mystery: fragmented, remembered, reassembled and reinvented. Compelling new writers Gurnaik Johal and Pia Ghosh-Roy navigate the shifting terrains of inheritance and interiority in their works, Saraswati, Mongrel and And I Am the Arrow, each tracing the search for self in distinct and resonant ways. In conversation with Maya Jaggi, they confront who we are, what we inherit, and what we choose to leave unsaid.