Lucky Girls could be a great read for someone interested in exploring the perspectives of women from different parts of the world. Nell Freudenberger has brilliantly captured the essence of global femininity through her short stories set in India and southern Asia. The characters are relatable, rootless, and often in transit; lost yet seeking their identity amidst their unfamiliar surroundings. The stories are heartbreaking yet resonate with you long after you've finished reading them.

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• Orange Prize Nominee for New Writers (2005)
• Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2004)

A collection of five stories, "Lucky Girls" is set in India and southern Asia. The characters - rootless, often enroute to someplace else - find themselves variously attracted to or repelled by unfamiliar landscapes where every object seems strange and every emotion is heightened. Living according to alien rules, these characters are also vulnerable in unexpected in the title story, a young woman who has been involved in an affair with an Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death; the protagonist of 'Outside the Eastern Gate' returns to her childhood home in Delhi to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother. 'Together, these stories form a whole of heartbreaking eloquence, yet each different strand has the resonance of a far longer work ...These surprising, generous stories signal the arrival of a born writer' - "Observer".

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