This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.
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.. --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. -- Washington Post Book World Bracingly honest.
This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay