“You have to understand that I wrote Honor during the Trump years,” she said. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Umrigar noted similarities between India, where she grew up, and the U.S., where she lives now.
Witherspoon announced her newest selection on Instagram, writing, “Complex and unfiltered, these are the of characters that stick with you long after you turn the pages.” A critic for Kirkus called the book “a graphic parable of contemporary India delivered in broad brush strokes.” Umrigar’s novel, her ninth, follows an American journalist who travels to India, where she was born, to report the story of a Hindu woman who is brutally attacked because she married a Muslim man. Thrity Umrigar’s Honor is the latest pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club.
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