Mohan had been born in a village not that far from Meena. Smita will be accompanied by Mohan who worked with Shannon as an assistant and translator. Although the couple has married and Meena is with child, the community, as well as Meena's two brothers, have taken to ostracizing the couple.and far far more. The small village where this took place outside of Mumbai is still saturated in ancient traditions of cruelty and heartless punishment. The story involves a Hindu woman who marries a Muslim man. What begins as a gesture of kindness for a friend will completely transform Smita forever.Īs a favor for Shannon, Smita will fill in for a shocking story that Shannon had been working on. Smita flies to Mumbai for the first time since the flight that took her family to Ohio. Smita is a journalist on vacation in Maldives when she gets a call that her friend and fellow journalist, Shannon, is undergoing surgery. Smita left India when she was fourteen years old as her father took a teaching position at a university in Ohio. I was completely laid flat with emotions that left me with no words.Īnd it all began with Umrigar introducing us to a young Indian American woman named Smita. I sincerely felt like a ten ton truck had been sitting on my chest. Thrity Umrigar has gifted us with an exceptional offering in her latest novel of Honor. For honor beckons to sit upon the highest of the high. Never steal honor's breath to try to validate actions that defile its very virtue. Honor is pure and never tainted by the ways of the world. It's what resides in the temple of your soul. Honor is what you know about yourself." (Lois McMaster Bujold) "Reputation is what other people know about you. My thanks to the author and Algonguin books for providing me with a gifted print copy to review. Honor is currently available on the Hoopla library app in both ebook and audiobook formats. They’re worth wading through though if it means you get to experience this beautiful, fast-moving story about love, prejudice, and sacrifice. Given the plot’s content, it should come as no surprise that there are very difficult scenes to read. Meena is a strong-willed survivor though, and she’s taking her brothers to court in pursuit of justice for her husband and to inspire other victimized women to do the same against their own perpetrators. Their interfaith marriage was a viewed as an abomination to Meena’s family, so murdering the couple was an attempt to avenge such a dishonor. It’s 2018, and Indian-American journalist Smita returns to the country of her birth to cover the story of Meena, a Hindu woman whose brothers set fire to her home… killing her Muslim husband and disfiguring her in the process. I can think of no higher praise to get the point across that Honor is worth reading. While set in India rather than Afghanistan, it deserves a place on shelves next to Khaled Hosseini’s modern classics The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Thrity Umrigar has written a contemporary novel that’s literary fiction at its finest. Honor is one of those books that’s not always easy to read but unquestionably easy to recommend.
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In this tender and evocative novel about love, hope, familial devotion, betrayal, and sacrifice, Thrity Umrigar shows us two courageous women trying to navigate how to be true to their homelands and themselves at the same time. But the dual love stories of Honor are as different as the cultures of Meena and Smita themselves: Smita realizes she has the freedom to enter into a casual affair, knowing she can decide later how much it means to her. She also finds herself increasingly drawn to Mohan, an Indian man she meets while on assignment. While Meena’s fate hangs in the balance, Smita tries in every way she can to right the scales. As she follows the case of Meena-a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man-Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one’s own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smita’s own past. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.
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