{"id":309,"date":"2021-01-23T23:53:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T23:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acrobatpublishinggroup.com\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2021-01-24T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T01:20:14","slug":"in-women-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acrobatpublishinggroup.com\/?page_id=309","title":{"rendered":"In Women We Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by N.H. Sakhia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A teenager\u2019s indiscretion becomes a family tragedy and threatens to become a national scandal in this Pakistan-set drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gul is the 15-year-old son of poor people who work for Sardar Timur, a wealthy and powerful man in Hayatabad, Pakistan. He\u2019s suddenly pulled into a brief sexual encounter with Timur\u2019s daughter, Farah, on whom he has had a longtime crush, and the two are discovered in an unlucky moment that has extraordinary reverberations. Furious at what he feels is his mortification, Timur calls for a Panchayat, an \u201cinformal justice system\u201d that empowers a council of locals to mete out determinations of guilt and innocence. Author Sakhia astutely captures the nature of these easily corruptible proceedings, which are officially illegal but largely ignored by the police. For Gul and his family, the stakes couldn\u2019t be higher; he could be castrated or killed, and his relations could also suffer gruesome fates. Meanwhile, French journalist Arlette Baudis, who has accused the prime minister of Pakistan of sexual harassment, attempts to make the Panchayat fiasco into an issue of international interest\u2014not only to highlight the nation\u2019s corruption but also to challenge its sexist view of women. Over the course of this novel, the author presents a tale that is sinewy and rich, deftly depicting a traditional system of justice as a thinly disguised one of oppression. Sakhia\u2019s sparse, straightforward prose is quietly moving, as when Baudis, in a fit of exasperated anger about the prime minister\u2019s popular election, rages, \u201cHow stupid are you people? Where the damn hell is the moral compass?\u201d Sakhia also manages, with great authorial restraint, to refrain from sacrificing the artistic elements of the story to a sententious lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A captivating drama in pursuit of dramatic truth.” Kirkus-Review<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Get It.”<\/a> Kirkus-Review’s <\/em>verdict!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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