On drift and place in Anisha Lalvani's Girls Who Stray

Girls Who Stray is less like a thriller than a prolonged encounter with a consciousness that cannot settle. It explores the peculiar loneliness produced when freedom expands faster than the ability to understand what it is for. Anisha Lalvani's Girls Who Stray enters this city through Noida and Greater Noida, though its geography keeps expanding into Delhi, Mumbai and London.