The New York Times reviews Sonia Faleiro’s Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars. Jessica Crispin interviews Faleiro about the book and its narrative nonfiction lens.
“Social reportage in particular allows for great character profiles, for description and detail and the intimacy that draws the reader into the lives of other people… I’ve great respect for fiction. But Leela’s story if fictionalized would have been diluted—it would have been anyone’s story and yet no one’s. So many traumas crammed into 19 years seems an impossibility. But it isn’t, it’s all too real…”
(Via Bookslut)
