![]() ![]() As always, not a word is wasted as she moves us through urban Mumbai and into Meena's rural village, and into complex encounters and confrontations that Smita views with double vision as an Indian American. Umrigar's strength is her great storytelling. Meena, left disfigured in the attack, has brought charges a verdict pends. Her assignment is to profile Meena, a Hindu villager whose Muslim husband was burned to death in an "honor killing" by Meena's brothers. Smita-a Mumbai native who is now an American journalist, reluctantly returns to India on an assignment she accepted as a favor to a friend. ![]() An Indian American journalist returns to the nation of her birth to report on the story of a Hindu woman whose brothers murdered her Muslim husband.įirst Impressions readers enjoyed being transported to India via Thrity Umrigar's novel Honor, with 36 out of 38 rating the book four or five stars. ![]()
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