Book Club: A Passage to India, E.M. Forster (#25, 1924)

With pick #25 on the Top 100, we step into the charged, beautiful, and deeply uneasy world of A Passage to India by E. M. Forster.

First published in 1924, A Passage to India explores what happens when people want connection across cultural, political, and spiritual divides, but are living inside systems that make genuine understanding nearly impossible. Set in British-ruled India, the novel centers on friendship, misunderstanding, accusation, and the devastating consequences of power imbalance.

This is a book about race, empire, and justice—but it’s also about something quieter and more unsettling: how easily good intentions collapse under fear, pride, and inherited beliefs. Reading it now gives us a chance to explore what happens when power, fear, and silence collide—dynamics many of us are watching unfold in the United States today.

Forster doesn’t offer villains and heroes so much as humans caught in a structure bigger than themselves.

It’s a novel that asks:

• Can true friendship exist without equality?
• What do we owe one another across difference?
• And what happens when silence, rather than cruelty, does the most damage?

Spend time with this profound and often uncomfortable classic, and join me for an engaging discussion.

Peace 💜