Everything you need to understand or teach The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff.
Parini Schroff's third person limited narrative, The Bandit Queens, is a witty thriller that follows the life of Geeta when the other women in her village solicit her to kill their husbands. The entirety of the novel is set in a rural village in present day India. Shroff explores themes of motherhood, identity, and autonomy.