![]() ![]() She strongly believes that her brothers did it and files a case with the help of lawyer Anjali. Her husband Abdul died in the fire while she survives with severe injuries and delivers Abru. The story that Smita is meant to cover speaks of Meena Mustafa, a woman whose house was set on fire when she was pregnant. She lies to her father that she is still on her Maldives vacation. She is a journalist and is supposed to replace her hospitalized colleague. ![]() Smita Agarwal, who left India as a teen two decades ago and doesn’t want anything to do with this country, comes back to cover a story. I had ample expectations from this one, having loved her other two books. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.”Īfter two intense novels The Space Between Us and The Secrets Between Us, Thrity Umrigar is back with another hard-hitting book, Honor, published on 4 January 2022 by Algonquin Books. “Because a woman can live in one of two houses-fear or love. GENRE:Literary Fiction TW: Sexual assault, murder, strong language. ![]()
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