The Space Between Us, Paperback/Thrity Umrigar

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"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 , and The Weight of Heaven , Thrity Umrigar is at adept andcompelling in The Space Between Us --vividlycapturing 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, Umrigar'scaptivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of ZoraNeale Hurston's Their Eyes Were WatchingGod , Betty Smith's A Tree Grows inBrooklyn , and Barbara Kingsolver's ThePoisonwood Bible --a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.