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The Secrets Between Us: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction
“A powerful, urgent novel that wields issues of gender and class like a blade. . . . This intergenerational novel asks hard questions about who we are, who we can become, and what awaits on the other side of our becoming. Thrity Umrigar is known as a bold and generous writer, and The Secrets Between Us ...Show more
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction
“This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.” —Washington Post Book World “Bracingly honest.” —New York Times Book Review The author of Bombay Time,If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is at adept andcompelling i ...Show more
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction
Devastating in its power, remarkable in its achievement, here is a searing, addictively readable novel that vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India - witnessed through the lives of two compelling women bound by friendship and loss, yet separated by blood and class ...Show more
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction
In this beautifully crafted novel about the interlinked lives of two women, Thrity Umrigar explores the complex relationships between the classes in India, rarely addressed in contemporary fiction. 'Bhima is real. She worked in the house I grew up in, year after year, a shadow flitting around our middl ...Show more
The Story Hour by Thrity N Umrigar
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.An experie ...Show more
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. Then an unexpected job half a world away in Girbaug, India, of ...Show more
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But over the past thirty years, the quartet has drifted apart, the day-to-day demands of work and family tempering the r ...Show more
The World We Found: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction
University students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But much has changed in the thirty years since those heady days. Following different paths, the quartet has drifted apart, ...Show more