Honor by Elif Shafak.
Elif Shafak follows a family of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London whose lives are shattered by an honor killing. The novel brings inherited expectations into contact with the realities of migration and family attachment.
Read it with attention to who gets to define honor and who bears the consequences. It asks readers to examine how a moral vocabulary can be used to authorize an act of violence.
Cover shown: Penguin paperback, ISBN 9780143125044. The purchase option below is the Penguin ebook, ISBN 9781101606148.
