The Space Between Us

The Space Between Us

• Author: Umrigar, Thrity.
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Pages: 321
• Publication Date: 2007
• Edition: 1st
• Binding: Paperback
• MSRP: 15.99
• ISBN13: 9780060791568
• ISBN: 006079156X
• Other ISBN: 9780061752605
• Other ISBN Binding: print
• Language: en
• Store Location: General Fiction
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<strong>“This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.”—<em>Washington Post Book World </em><br/> <br/>“Bracingly honest.”</strong><em><strong>—New York Times Book Review</strong> </em><br/><em> </em><br/><em>The author of </em><em>Bombay Time</em>, <em>If Today Be Sweet</em>, and <em>The Weight of Heaven</em>, Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in <em>The Space Between Us</em>—vividly 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, Umrigar’s captivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of Zora Neale Hurston’s <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>, Betty Smith’s <em>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</em>, and Barbara Kingsolver’s <em>The Poisonwood Bible</em>—a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.