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A review by swar28
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
3.0
Living in a country like India, where there are so many things that are still changing to become a better place for the generations to come, there still are places where education, equal rights for women and standard of living is a concern. The Good Girls - an ordinary killing, is an eye opening, heart breaking book about a true incident that occurred in the Katra Village of Uttar Pradesh, India.
The book is extremely well researched and well written, giving a feel of reading another crime or thriller novel. However, when it dawns upon you, that something like this incident, really happened, it gives the chills. I do remember this incident and the nation wide opinions people had about it. But to read such details about this case was a different experience altogether.
I have so many questions after reading this book. Questions like, will woman ever feel safe in this world? Do we have to hide from each and every person around us, just so we can live to see another day? I am lucky, I have privileges others don't, doesn't mean I am not afraid to come home alone at night. --Spoiler Alert-- The girls in this book, are young women, who meet a boy from the neighbouring village and engage in sexual activities. These girls do not have access to a toilet in their house, have to look after their homes, have been made to withdraw education and be married soon. With so many restrictions, on getting caught, they have no option but to die by suicide, so that they do not have to face their family, destroy their honour or worse, be killed by them. So another question that comes to be is, who really is at fault here? Something to ponder upon.
I will think about this book and a lot of crimes like this that go by. We do not even understand the reality of what is happening, thanks to the news channels dramatising every incident that happens and keeps us from facts. So I am thankful for this book and the details in it, for shining light on this case.
The book is extremely well researched and well written, giving a feel of reading another crime or thriller novel. However, when it dawns upon you, that something like this incident, really happened, it gives the chills. I do remember this incident and the nation wide opinions people had about it. But to read such details about this case was a different experience altogether.
I have so many questions after reading this book. Questions like, will woman ever feel safe in this world? Do we have to hide from each and every person around us, just so we can live to see another day? I am lucky, I have privileges others don't, doesn't mean I am not afraid to come home alone at night. --Spoiler Alert-- The girls in this book, are young women, who meet a boy from the neighbouring village and engage in sexual activities. These girls do not have access to a toilet in their house, have to look after their homes, have been made to withdraw education and be married soon. With so many restrictions, on getting caught, they have no option but to die by suicide, so that they do not have to face their family, destroy their honour or worse, be killed by them. So another question that comes to be is, who really is at fault here? Something to ponder upon.
I will think about this book and a lot of crimes like this that go by. We do not even understand the reality of what is happening, thanks to the news channels dramatising every incident that happens and keeps us from facts. So I am thankful for this book and the details in it, for shining light on this case.