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An Indian-American journalist returns to the country her family fled when she was a teen on an assignment to cover a trial of an “honor killing”. A poor country woman’s brothers had killed her husband because he was Moslem and their family was Hindu.
The author has created a story that contrasts wealthy, sophisticated Indians with poor peasants and with educated middle-class. The main character, Smita, brings the POV of a woman who came of age in the US but grew up in the Mumbai culture and has ...more
The author has created a story that contrasts wealthy, sophisticated Indians with poor peasants and with educated middle-class. The main character, Smita, brings the POV of a woman who came of age in the US but grew up in the Mumbai culture and has ...more
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