![]() Her Americanization disconnects her from the people she meets when she returns to the land of her birth to assist Shannon Carpenter, her South Asian correspondent colleague. ![]() Umrigar draws on her years as a journalist in creating Smita, an international gender issues reporter who was born in India but has lived in America since she was fourteen. In contrast, a beautiful, unyielding love story forms the backbone that offers power against misogyny. ![]() ![]() Two stories weave together as tightly as the threads of finest satin-that of the complex Smita Agarwal and the unworldly Meena Mustafa, two women whose dissimilar lives are interrupted by tragedies which, though unrelated, ultimately bind them. The word honor in our daily lives operates as a positive one, yet here, honor also becomes a contranym, an antonym of itself, a quirk of the English language not often acknowledged. Honor, her most powerful novel to date, is no exception, calling out marginalization of a minority and religious tribalism in India, alongside battling the concept of not being able to go home again. Reading a novel by Thrity Umrigar is like experiencing a master class in writing and storytelling. INALIENABLE: REFLECTIONS ON INDEPENDENCE & BELONGING.Voices Column: Desi Roots, Global Wings. ![]()
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