Smita, as we learn, has very mixed feelings about returning to the country of her childhood-a place she had never wanted to visit again. But when she arrives in Mumbai, she is dismayed to realize that her friend doesn’t need her help personally, but expects Smita to cover a story that she had been working on. We meet Smita, a journalist who returns to India, a country she and her family had fled decades before, to help a colleague in need. Such prejudice and hatred are endemic to almost every country. Umrigar makes it clear that while India is the setting for this tragic story, the prejudice and hatred toward women, toward others of a different religion, toward others who are considered to be less worthy, are not confined to any one country. For while honor is a noble concept, the foul acts perpetrated in its name are not. “Honor” is a perfect title for Thrity Umrigar’s powerful novel about India and the horrors that are perpetrated in rural areas in the name of religion and honor.
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