The Good Girls, Sonia Faleiro
The Good Girls, Sonia Faleiro
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The Good Girls
An Ordinary Killing

Author: Sonia Faleiro

Narrator: Sonia Faleiro

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/09/2021

Synopsis

By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.

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.

They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started.

Then one night in the summer of 2014 the girls went missing; and hours later they were found hanging in the orchard. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind.

In the ensuing months, the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that their small 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 shameful deaths, and dares to ask: what is the human cost of shame?

About The Author

SONIA FALEIRO is an award-winning writer and the author of three previous books. Her previous book Beautiful Thing was selected as an Observer, Economist, Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, Time Out, NPR and Kirkus Book of the Year. Her writing and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Granta. In 2011 Faleiro was awarded the Karmaveer Puraskaar for Social Justice 'for drawing attention to India's most vulnerable'. Faleiro is a co-founder of Deca, a global journalism cooperative that creates long-form stories to read on mobile devices. She lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara (NOT RECEIVING NOTIFICATIONS!)

3.5 stars: This is one of the saddest stories I have read. “The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing” by Sonia Faleiro tells the story of the horrendous death of two young Indian village girls, aged 16 and 14. The girls went missing May 27, 2014. They were found hung from a mango tree in an orchard the ne......more

Goodreads review by Shelleyrae

The Good Girls is a powerful, heartrending and compelling work of investigative journalism from award winning author Sonia Faleiro. On May 27th 2014, cousins and best friends 16 year old Padma* and 14 year old Lalli* went into the fields to relieve themselves before bedtime, as was their habit, and n......more

Goodreads review by Aoife

I received this book from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. In 2014, two young girls from a village in Utar Pradesh were reported missing. Their bodies were later found hanging from a tree in a nearby orchard and their families refused to move them, proclaiming the girls......more

Goodreads review by Krutika

• r e c o m m e n d a t i o n • I finished reading The Good Girls sometime last week but my mind refused to write a review. My immediate feeling was that of shock. Shock from learning the incompetent manner in which the investigation was carried out. But quickly, it shifted to anger; the kind that th......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin

In the author’s note at the end, she says she wanted to write a book about rape in India. And that’s exactly what this book is. I didn’t mean to get into quite such heavy material but that’s not the reason for my three stars. The reason is one word- editing! We don’t need to know every single thing......more

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