“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.