The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

"In mid-2014, the news in India was dominated by two stories: Narendra Modi’s landmark election as the country’s prime minister and the horrific deaths of two teenage girls in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. The image of the girls’ bodies hanging from a tree in a village grove went viral. A year later, Sonia Faleiro began her multiyear journey of reporting their deaths by investigating their lives. This groundbreaking book goes beyond the national conversations about sex and violence, the sociopolitical machinations and the media-generated controversies around the killings to weave an intricate, page-turning whodunit. Faleiro doesn’t simply lay out the various problems that beset the case. She shows us, in precise detail, its human, historical, political and economic costs."