Devastating in its power, here is a searing novel that vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India, as witnessed through the lives of an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and her stoic, illiterate domestic worker.
A portrayal of two women discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against the confines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar\'s captivating second novel 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.. -- 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 Us --vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family.
This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.-- Washington Post Book World Bracingly honest.
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.
Devastating in its power, here is a searing novel that vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India, as witnessed through the lives of an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and her stoic, illiterate domestic worker
