Part fiction, part expose, wholly original, completely transfixing. In perfectly crafted stories, two authors try to define the "good" Indian girl, and discover she defies all description.

Who is the 'Good Indian Girl'? What does she look like? How does she dress? Is she real — or is she a myth?

In this funny, wicked, touching, irreverent, poignant collection of stories, Annie Zaidi and Smriti Ravindra lift the veil (or sari pallu) on the lives and loves of girls who have been born or raised in the subcontinent.

Searingly funny—with a serious edge. Exploding stereotypes—and creating a few new ones.

The niceties have to be observed, but the urge to subvert is often overwhelming. As they shimmy down drainpipes at midnight, or steal covert glances at the boys across the street, the real life incidents from which these stories are drawn will ring a bell with any woman who has negotiated the minefield of romantic longing and the desires that lies between childhood and womanhood.