Small Deaths begins with death: a murder inside a brothel in the red light district in Calcutta called Shonagachi. A woman named Maya is murdered and no one seems to know who did it. The local authorities don’t care and brush it off as an everyday occurrence in such a neighborhood. Soon it’s up to the other women in the brothel to get to the bottom of whodunit.
Read MoreThe Service intertwines the stories of three very different women whose lives are connected by the sex industry. The book shows just how much the sex workers involved in the industry rely on this work, with many living from payment to payment to cover rent, childcare, food, upkeep and other necessities. While a few are high-end call girls, these for the most part are the exception.
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