Potomac Turning (ePub)

Adwit Pundit, unequalled scholar, has been a global traveler in seventy countries as an academic, policy adviser, author, and tourist. He has written several accounts of his travels in magazines and has recently authored a book on art. He feels that his personal experiences across the globe give him unique opportunities to observe, imbibe, and communicate.

Potomac Turning, his first novel, refers to a secret location on the cliffs overhanging a sharp turn of the Potomac River in Washington DC, which is crucial to the story of Patrick-the central character around whom the plot revolves. The story is a hide-and-seek between life as lived and life that remains below the surface, of relationships and experiences among six young individuals as they progress through life with courage, desire, pathos, and uncertainty.

Zooming from San Antonio, Texas, to Washington DC in the United States, to Calcutta, India, and connecting to Bogota, Colombia, the story embraces transnational cultural influences and practices, depicting tantalizing interpersonal relationships set in many locations across the globe. In the backdrop, with a centrality in shaping their characters, are their mothers set in different cultures and continents-some as visible characters, some remaining in the periphery.

Reflecting its many characters and its vast geographical scope, the novel is divided into three books woven around the different phases in the life, travels, and travails of Patrick. The characters are portrayed with directness, their descriptions delineated honestly, and their experiences with intimacy. Yet the use of words remains scholarly. In this, the novel charts a new course, using a deliberately independent style and setting a trend in Indian writing.

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