"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
A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Thrity
Umrigar's critically acclaimed and bestselling novel--a luminous,
unforgettable story of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family set
in modern-day India.
The Space Between Us is the story of two compelling and achingly real
women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent
surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage,
and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss,
who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. A
powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, Umrigar's extraordinary
novel demonstrates how the lives of the rich and poor are intrinsically
connected yet vastly removed from each other, and how the strong bonds
of womanhood are eternally opposed by the divisions of class and
culture. It is a story that 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.