Thrity Umrigar, who "displays an impressive talent for conceiving
multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional
quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks," (Washington Post Book
World) brings her talent to the social struggles of modern day Bombay in
THE SPACE BETWEEN US.
"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.