The Space Between Us

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 Usvividly 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, Umrigars captivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God, Betty Smiths A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Barbara Kingsolvers The Poisonwood Biblea quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.