The Space Between Us: A Novel

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, andThe Weight of Heaven,Thrity Umrigar is at adept andcompelling in The Space Between Usvividlycapturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictivelyreadable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal oftwo woman discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against theconfines of a rigid caste system, Umrigarscaptivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of ZoraNeale Hurstons Their Eyes Were WatchingGod, Betty Smiths A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, and Barbara Kingsolvers ThePoisonwood Biblea quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.