India, May 17 -- Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with reverse swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and an artist. In the haze of Berlin's legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. As Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe's controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany, as well as Nila's family and community. After a year of running from her future, she stops to ask herself: Who does she want to be? A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction....