Blurb submitted by Aal-E-Aba F.
Shamed is nonfiction
The book began on a normal Friday afternoon. The author of the book was telling about her family. She belonged to an Indian religious Sikh family. They had to follow some specific rules from their elders. After her marriage, there was a family gathering and after that gathering, she heard the old lady saying that "It's decided then, we have to get rid of her." That lady was her mother-in-law. Within three weeks of that meeting, Surjit (Sarbjit's sister-in-law) died: lured from London to India, drugged, strangled, and her body dumped in the Ravi River, never to be seen again. Risking her own life, she secretly fought for justice for her sister-in-law for nine years. She was the first person within the murderer's family to ever go to court. As a result of her testimony, the trial led to the first successful prosecution of an honor killing without the body ever being found. But her life has been threatened and her husband was arrested too. It is actually a story of courage of a woman who risked everything for the justice of her sister-in-law. Some parts of this story are interesting and some are tense but the whole story is motivational and this is a kind of story you do not want to miss out on.
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