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The Space Between Us

By Thrity Umrigar
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Publisher Description

“This is a story intimately and compassionately told against 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 as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us—vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal of two women discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against the confines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar’s captivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible—a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.

778 Reviews

3.5
“This is a story about Bhima, a servant and her employer, Sera and the bond they share for more than 20 years. Umrigar weaves a beautiful but brutal story that talks about class, privilege, and power. The things Bmiha goes through are heartbreaking. The space between her and Sera was always there, no matter how good and generous Sera was. Sera's life was also plagued with an awful mother-in-law and a cruel husband. This book is so well written and pulls on your heart strings. It makes you care about the characters and hope that just this time, life may be fair. Even though I expected this ending, it still filled me with rage with how final and swift it happened. I highly recommend this book.”

About Thrity Umrigar

Thrity Umrigar is the author of seven novels Everybody’s Son, The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time; a memoir, First Darling of the Morning; and a children’s picture book, When I Carried You in My Belly. A former journalist, she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a finalist for the PEN Beyond Margins Award. A professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

 

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