AUTHOR : Sonia Faleiro                            

GENRE :NON-FICTION 

QUICK TAKE:  The Good Girls is an immersive work investigating the truth
behind the death of two teenage girls in UP.This is a book that is extremely relevant in India today as crimes against women remain a sad reality of our times 

SYNOPSIS:

In the summer of 2014 two teenagers disappeared from
their home in the village of Katra Sadatganj in Uttar Pradesh. The
next morning India woke up to the devastating image of their dead bodies
hanging from a tree in a mango orchard.The girls' names were Padma and Lalli but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli Sixteen year old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen year old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic .Who were they and what had happened to them?

In the ensuing months,the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that theirsmall community held to be true and instigate a national conversation
about sex and violence Slipping deftly behind political maneuvering, caste
systems and codes of honor in a village in northern India, The Good Girls
returns to the scene of Padma and Lalli's short lives and tragic deaths, and
dares to ask what is the human cost of shame? 

AUTHOR :  

Sonia Faleiro is the author of Beautiful Thing Inside the Secret World of
Bombay's Dance Bars which was named a book of the year by the Guardian,
the Observer, the Sunday Times, NPR and the Economist, and a novella,
The Girl. She is a co founder of Deca, a cooperative of award winning
writers.

PREORDER:  This book will be released ~ 11th January                   

BINDING : Hardback 

PAGES: 352