_WOULD YOU RISK YOUR OWN LIFE TO PURSUE JUSTICE FOR A STRANGER?_ _Two migrant women—separated by geographies and generations—face this same devastating choice. _Lured away from her home in 1890s India, Sita is brought to South Africa as an indentured servant—one among millions funneled by the British to replace the recently abolished slave trade. One hundred years later, Hajra, a Pakistani scholar, is forced to flee to New York City from her home in Peshawar after witnessing a violent act meant to target her. She loses herself in academic research until she comes face-to-face with a photo of a laughing, defiant young woman brandishing a banner in protest. Inexorably drawn to this woman, Hajra travels to South Africa to learn more and unknowingly traces Sita's path. With raw imagery and rich sensory detail, Roohi Choudhry's incandescent debut novel _Outside Women_ intertwines the narratives of two women painfully yet valiantly carving their existences outside of patriarchal and colonial spaces as they search for kinship and strength in solidarity.