Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR. Thank you for choosing my novel as your January 2022 pick. Thank you, for modeling for us how women can uplift other women. Thank you for choosing my novel as your January 2022 pick.” On Twitter, Umrigar reacted to her novel’s selection, writing, “Thank you, for modeling for us how women can uplift other women. I am sometimes appalled and bewildered and dismayed by the parallels.” The trend winds are blowing across the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States. This othering of others is not a you can assign to any one country. Thrity Umrigar 4.40 40,777 ratings3,942 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fiction (2022) In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. “I was writing about India, but I was also writing about my own adopted country. “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. A more traditional storyteller than Neel Mukherjee, whose recent A State of Freedom also considered seismic social shifts in this immense nation, Umrigar chooses to reflect new India via a pair of aging female characters whose lives of struggle and suffering have not delivered an easeful old age. 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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