![]() ![]() ![]() Recently, Shondaland spoke with Faleiro via Zoom to discuss her latest work, writing difficult stories, journalism during a global pandemic, the future for women in India, being persistent, and so much more. ![]() Beautiful and heartbreaking, Faleiro’s relentless pursuit of the truth helps to make The Good Girls an absolutely essential read and a piercing indictment of a justice system that has failed so many in innumerable ways. Investigating the hanging deaths of 16 and 14 year old girls Padma and Lalli, the book is both a True Crime tour-de-force and a deep-dive into the societal pressures of being female in India. Her 2010 book, Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars, and 2015 Kindle Single, 13 Men, both tackled incredibly tough topics with grace, depth, and the same beautifully-written prose that makes her latest book, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, her very best work yet. Author and journalist Sonia Faleiro may have gotten her start in the world of fiction (her 2006 debut novel The Girl received wide praise upon its release), but it is her masterful use of lyrical prose and dogged reporting in her narrative non-fiction work that has made her a critical darling and one of the foremost chroniclers of sensitive topics like crime, sexuality, class, and more (especially when it comes to writing about her original home, India). ![]()
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