Inside an Honor Killing

In this moving narrative, journalist Wold investigates the practice of honor killing, the murder by relatives of a girl or woman who has brought dishonor on the family. Wold focuses on one family in Jordan--extensively interviewing both Rahman, who killed one of his daughters for engaging in a relationship with another woman and attempted to kill his other daughter for concealing it, and Amina, the daughter who survived--interspersing a recreation of their experiences with an account of her research process, during which she consulted prison authorities, an imam, human rights lawyers, and a…