Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic framebrothels streets and public daywage labor markets nakas where sexual commerce may be solicited discretely alongside other incomegenerating activities. Focusing on women who migrated to Mumbai from rural economically underdeveloped areas within India Svati P. Shah argues that selling sexual services is one of a number of ways women working as laborers may earn a living demonstrating that sex work like day labor is a part of Indias vast informal economy. Here various means of earninglegitimized or stigmatized legal or illegaloverlap or exist in close proximity to one another shaping a narrow field of livelihood options that women navigate daily. In the course of this rich ethnography Shah discusses policing practices migrants access to housing and water the idea of public space critiques of states and citizenship and the discursive location of violence within debates on sexual commerce. Throughout the book analyzes the epistemology of prostitution and the silences and secrets that constitute the discourse of sexual commerce on Mumbais streets.