The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
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In the summer of 2014, sixteen-year-old Padma and fourteen-year-old Lalli, inseparable cousins in the tiny Uttar Pradesh village of Katra Sadatganj, go missing. Hours later they are found hanging from a mango tree in an orchard. First reports scream gang rape and murder. Then the story shifts toward honor, shame, caste politics, and suicide. Sonia Faleiro spends years in the village, interviewing relatives, the accused, and police, following an investigation that implodes everything the community held true and sparks a national argument about sex and violence. Slipping past political maneuvering and codes of honor, The Good Girls returns to Padma and Lalli's short lives and asks what it costs when a girl's reputation matters more than her life.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780802158208
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