A Sister to Honor

Name: A Sister to Honor
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lucy Ferriss
ISBN: 9781490656335

Author: Lucy Ferriss

Narrator: Mozhan Marno

Unabridged: 12 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/13/2015

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe-even from the family that cherishes her. Rising sports star Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. He has sworn to protect his beloved sister from the dangerous customs of America, from its loose morals and easy virtue. Shahid was the one who convinced their parents to allow her to come to the United States. He never imagined he'd be ordered to cleanse the stain of her shame...

About Lucy Ferriss

Lucy Ferriss is the author of several books, including the novels Against Gravity, The Misconceiver, and Nerves of the Heart, which was a finalist in the Peter Taylor Prize competition. Her memoir Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante was named Best Book of the Year by the Riverfront Times and her collection Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories was the 2000 winner of the Mid-List First Series Award. Other short fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Georgia Review, and have received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Faulkner Society, the Fulbright Commission, and the George Bennett Fund, among others. Lucy received her Ph.D. from Tufts University and currently lives in the Berkshires and in Connecticut, where she is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vishnu on November 30, 2018

Almost two years back we interview Lucy Ferris for her (then recently) published book "A Sister To honor" (In India with Fingerprint Publishers). As a token of gratitude, we have received a copy of the book. Unfortunately, during that period we shifted job and home so this book got into our storeroo......more

Goodreads review by Bookish Indulgenges with on February 22, 2017

When this book came up on Fingerprint Publishing’s review copy list, it caught my attention immediately. Honor Killings still happen around here in the Indian Subcontinent and I really wanted an insight as to the whole concept. For me it is difficult to understand really what honor could there be in......more

Goodreads review by Meg - A Bookish Affair on January 11, 2015

"A Sister to Honor" is one of those books that just sucks you in from the very beginning. It is a story of cultural clashes, honor, and family. At the center of the book is Afia, a Pashtun Pakistani woman who comes to Smith College in the United States to study to be a doctor. She falls for a guy in......more

Goodreads review by Tad on March 07, 2017

One of the differences between an actual book and a kindle is that with an actual book you know how close to the end you are. In this one, the story neared its inevitable climax, I got to the final chapter...and then looked down to see that I was less than 60 percent through. And from there, the plo......more

Goodreads review by Abhilash on July 24, 2017

I have never read any book by Lucy Ferriss before but while browsing through the books published by Fingerprint publishers, one of my favorite publication houses in India, I got to read the title of the book “A Sister To Honour” which made me pick up the book and read it this weekend. The cover page......more