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The Bandit Queens

A Novel

by Parini Shroff

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The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
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    Jan 2023, 352 pages

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A debut novel as humorous as it is dark, The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff is a drama-riddled story about the strength women wield when banding together in the battle against systemic oppression.

Geeta's been branded a churel — a revenge-seeking mythological being — by her Indian village because her abusive husband, Ramesh, disappeared five years ago and everybody assumes she murdered him. The story always varies: Did she feed him to stray dogs? Poison him? The village can think what they want; Geeta didn't kill him, but after suffering his abuse, being viewed as a murderous widow seems like the most freedom she has experienced in her whole life. That is, until some other women want to get rid of their own horrible husbands as well, and they think Geeta is the perfect candidate to help execute them. She soon finds herself blackmailed into becoming an accomplice for a crime that has never been a part of her resume. In other words, Geeta realizes she's in deep shit, and somehow, the pile keeps getting deeper and deeper. Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens is a darkly ...

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