{"product_id":"the-good-girls-an-ordinary-killing-hardcover","title":"The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonia Faleiro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the award-winning writer of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a summer night in 2014, Padma and Lalli went missing from Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh. Hours later they were found hanging in the orchard behind their home. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSlipping deftly behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honor in a village in northern India, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Girls\u003c\/i\u003e returns to the scene of their short lives and shameful deaths, and dares to ask: What is the human cost of shame?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonia Faleiro\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars, \u003c\/em\u003e which was named a book of the year by \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, \u003c\/em\u003eNPR and \u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e, and a novella, \u003cem\u003eThe Girl.\u003c\/em\u003e She is a co-founder of Deca, a cooperative of award-winning writers creating narrative journalism about the world. Her work has been supported by the Pulitzer Centre and The Investigative Fund, and appears in the\u003cem\u003e New York Times, The Financial Times, Granta, 1843, The California Sunday Magazine, MIT Technology Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHarper's. \u003c\/em\u003eShe lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 314\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768984109344,"sku":"9780802158208","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cdca02f69384383d5001d4e276ace4cb.webp?v=1780340774","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-good-girls-an-ordinary-killing-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}