author : Sonia FaleiroSonia Faleiro is an award-winning reporter and the author of a book of fiction, The Girl (Viking, 2006). Beautiful Thing is her first full-length work of non-fiction and is based on five years of research in Bombay's dance bars. Sonia was born in Goa, India; studied in Edinburgh, worked in Bombay, and lives in San Francisco. Please visit www.soniafaleiro.com