Literary Fiction
by Thrity Umrigar
An Americanized Indian journalist returns home to cover an honor killing, forging an unlikely bond with the victim that exposes chasms of culture, class, and complicity. Umrigar writes with piercing empathy about courage born from witnessing injustice. A searing examination of violence against women and the cost of bearing witness.
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