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. I was enthralled with this book and found myself contemplating the social issues of intolerance and corruption as well as the harsh realness and reality that Umrigar is mirroring in Honor. Smita is an Indian American journalist who returns to her birthplace of India and is thrust into the world of India that she and her family had tried to move past. Honor by Thrity Umrigar was such an immersive novel taking you into the world of two different Indias – one, bustling and modernizing Mumbai, and the other, Birwad, a rural town experiencing discrimination of the minority Muslim population.
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