Summer Around the World: "The Bandit Queens" by Parini Shroff 🇮🇳

This summer, our theme is Traveling Around the World and our first stop is Northern India!

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife…

Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago and while she didn't kill him, everyone thinks she did - a rumor she hasn’t bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India.

Freedom must look good on Geeta, because other women in the village have started asking for her help to get rid of their own no-good husbands.

But not all of them are asking nicely . . .

342 pgs

• Nominee for GoodReads Best Debut (2023)
• Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (2023)