Leaving the Cusp In a grotto of debdaru trees, Father sits with novitiates, boys slightly older than us but still in their teens. These are the sprawling grounds of a seventeenth century church on the banks of the Hooghly River near Kolkata. Father, a stern Romanian in his thirties, speaks fluent Bengali and is perpetually […]
Sayantani Roy
SAYANTANI ROY grew up in small-town India and writes from the Seattle area. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin, Emerge Literary Journal, MacQueen's Quinterly, TIMBER, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2024 fiction mentee in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship program. Say hello on Instagram @sayan_tani_r.
