A review by mtstellens
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

5.0

One of the funniest books I have read this year. A woman, Geeta, whose husband has disappeared is roped into helping some of the women in her micro-loan group murder their husbands. Eventually she ends up being blackmailed by one of the women and she needs to produce her missing husband. Very conveniently, he shows up again and seems apologetic, having lost his vision. He quickly resumes his abuse and attempts to isolate Geeta from her newfound (and refound) friends, so she needs to become a widow again. The climax, a botched murder plot (he wasn’t blind), was funny and cathartic. So many hilarious details and characters while also dealing with some pretty serious subject matter, but unlike other attempts, this worked so well.