Stupid Cupid

I had set up as an agent. For want of a better name let’s call it a love agency to provide a decent meeting place where men and women lovers and friends could rendezvous without too much sweat…. People only want to be alone together. They need time to meet and talk. They want to find themselves through a moment of love. Drawn to New Delhi from the hills of the North East by hopes of adventure and the love of a married man, Adna opens a guest house for lovers and friends. In a small bungalow on a quiet lane, an unlikely assortment of couples and singles come together for an afternoon, a day, and sometimes for months. While in the big city, death, like Cupid, stalks the streets and strikes at random. This second novel by the acclaimed author of The Legends of Pensam is a graceful, quirky, and ultimately moving story about relationships, complete with all their complications and joy. Mamang Dai, a journalist and former civil servant based in Itanagar, has written extensively about the culture and history of Arunachal Pradesh. She is a member of the North East Writers’ Forum and has published several short stories and poems. Her previous books include The Legends of Pensam, Mountain Harvest, The Food of Arunachal, River Poems, Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land, and two children’s books, Once Upon a Moontime and The Sky Queen.