Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
An upcoming debut novel by San Francisco-based Parini Shroff has been making waves for turning a page on dark humour and telling a unique and deep, albeit tongue-in-cheek, story.
The Bandit Queens is set to be released on January 3 and narrates the story of a young Indian woman who finds the false rumours that she killed her husband surprisingly useful as she rebuilds her life.
That is until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands.
The book deals sharply with misogyny and abuse, describing the misery inflicted as well as its consequences in unflinching detail, and is equally unsparing in depictions of mean-girl culture in the village.
Readers are in for a razor-stuffed treat.
