Qabar is not the kind of book that tells its story in a simple, straightforward way. It begins with a legal case involving a grave, but the story soon takes you into questions of history, identity, belief and the stories people carry with them. What I found most interesting was the way Meera brings together two very different worlds. On one side, there is the world of law, where everything is expected to have evidence and an explanation. On the other hand, there are stories,