![]() ![]() See why thousands of readers are using Bookclubs to stay connected. Worst case scenario it doesn't work, but thankfully it did. A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful-until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands-in this razor-sharp debut. ![]() And finally, I threw my hands up and I was like, fine, I will let you be what you want to be. But the humour was insistent, and kept creeping in. We're talking about very timely, very important issues. ![]() The humour kept creeping in, probably because the levity was needed in order to entertain myself when I was writing the novel. How difficult is it to get that balance right?’ Mark asked Parini Shroff about how she balanced humour in her novel: ‘This is a book about women murdering men, but at the same time there is a lot of dark laugh-out-loud humour in the book. I thought this was interesting and I wrote a short story about a micro-loan group, and I thought I was writing about money and then many years later, during the pandemic, I revisited the short story, realized it was a novel, and I also realized that something far more compelling than writing about money was writing about female friendships - and murder!’ ![]() ‘When I was visiting my family in India, we went to a village to sit in on a micro-loan meeting and I saw these women take this oath to pay their loans on time, but also to protect their fellow sisters. Mark followed this by asking Parini Shroff: ‘Why did you want to tell this story?’ ![]()
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