"Shut up, you bitch, you slut. Girls like you, I know how to fix them up." - One of the brothers in a warning to a female victim.
Girls Like You is an astonishing, searing non-fiction narrative, built on dialogue, character and forensic detail as it tracks the cascade of crimes by six brothers from Pakistan after they arrive in Sydney. In a catalogue of outrages, women are raped and men die. As the net eventually closes on the perpetrators the book becomes a courtroom drama. Paul Sheehan follows each shocking case, as the girls search for justice in a legal system loaded in favour of the defendant rather than the victim.
Girls Like You unfolds against the backdrop of the gang-rape phenomenon and the cultural clash between young Muslim men and young western women. Written by the author of the huge bestseller, Among The Barbarians, it is even more dramatic and even more topical. Paul Sheehan is a columnist and senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, where he has been day editor, chief of staff and Washington correspondent. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, The Best American Essays 1997 and The Best Australian Essays 2000 and 2002. His two previous books are Among the Barbarians (1998) and The Electronic Whorehouse (2003).
