However reluctantly, she is drawn into the story, helped by Shannon’s friend Mohan, who has a more hopeful (if also defensive) vision of India and is shocked by what he discovers, even as he and Smita grow close.
Smita’s family had its own tragic reasons for leaving India when she was a young teenager, and she remains haunted by memories that unfold painfully here. Smita discovers that Shannon wants her there to take over a news story: A Hindu woman named Meena is suing her two brothers for burning her new husband to death because he was Muslim. Indian-born, U.S.-raised journalist Smita abandons her vacation to visit Shannon, a newspaper colleague who’s been hospitalized in Mumbai.
In her latest, the multi-award-winning Umrigar ( The Secrets Between Us) revisits a tumultuous India through the stories of two women.
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