A review by meredith_w
Honor by Thrity Umrigar

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

An extremely engaging read. But it also felt 100% written for an all-white women book club.  While I was thoroughly entertained and suitably outraged while reading this book, it also felt kinda icky. This story felt exploitive - the main character herself even questioned if writing Meena's story would be classified as 'poverty porn'. Almost all the characters lacked any nuance. The 'bad' characters were extremely bad, and only bad. The 'good' characters were almost perfect, totally kind and the opposite of self-serving. Smita, thankfully, was nuanced - relatable, frustrating, and human.