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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