![]() ![]() People are superstitious, and Geeta uses that superstition to her gain. KELLY: And she finds this works very much to her advantage in certain ways. People believe it because Geeta is a pariah, and better her than them. And before you know it, people believe it because they want to believe it. I think it might be a mixed bag, but I do believe, in a village of this size, people love ostracizing. At first, I'm not really sure that people truly believe it. And gossip is a huge theme in this novel and - about one's reputation, which is one's currency when you're in a village this small. He ran out on her five years prior to when the novel begins. ![]() SHROFF: Well, Geeta's husband, Ramesh - he disappeared. ![]() KELLY: How exactly does everyone in this village come to believe that Geeta murdered her husband? Parini Shroff, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Everything is going well for her until the other women in the village start asking for help getting rid of their husbands, and that is the starting point for the wild ride that is the new novel, "The Bandit Queens." It's the debut novel of Parini Shroff. And Geeta is happy for the rumors to stand uncorrected because, well, she likes freedom a lot better than she liked her husband. You see, Geeta is a widow because she killed her husband - at least that is what people think. To new fiction now and the story of Geeta, jewelry maker in an Indian village with a dangerous reputation. ![]()
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