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Thrity Umrigar
A riveting story about uncovering family secrets and the power of forgiveness, set in India and the United States, from the bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick Honor.
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This immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick Honor is a Book Riot Best Book of 2023. When…
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"Thrity Umrigar has an uncanny ability to look deeply into the human heart and find the absolute truth of our lives. The Story Hour is stunning and beautiful. Lakshmi and…
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From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and ... piercing writer,"…
The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable…
In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.
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The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they…
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…
From the bestselling author of The Space Between Us comes a fascinating glimpse at the 1960s and 70s Bombay which Umrigar remembers. Two coming-of-age stories collide in this memoir–one of…
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Though the bond between mother and son is extremely strong, Anton is placed with child services while Juanita goes to jail.The Harvard-educated son of a US senator, Judge David Coleman…
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In this beautifully crafted novel about the interlinked lives of two women, Thrity Umrigar explores the complex relationships between the classes in India, rarely addressed in contemporary fiction.
"Powerful. . . . Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, The Weight of Heaven packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level…
A novel about a widow in Ohio dealing with the loss of her husband and country. After he died she has to make a decision: go back to India, the…
Filled with satisfyingly real characters and glowing with local color, The Weight of Heaven is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control.
University students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But much has changed in…
The acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven returns with a breathtaking new novel–a skillfully wrought, emotionally resonant story of four women and the indelible…
Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and…
A profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship from bestselling author Thrity Umrigar.
More than a decade since her bestselling novel, The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar continues Bhima’s unforgettable story in this stunning sequel. The women at the heart of this novel…
After being fired from her job as a servant, Bhima forms a partnership with Parvati to sell produce at the local market and makes her first true friend.
First Harper Perennial edition published in 2018. Reissued in 2019.
Author of Reese's Book Club pick Honor and the bestselling The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar returns with a powerful new story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the…
A heart-warming story of facing fear and sharing our culture and experience with our peers.
As Indian American journalist Smita follows the case of Meena–a Hindu woman attacked for marrying a Muslim–she comes face-to-face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one’s own…
The bestselling author of The Space Between Us and Reese's Book Club pick Honor delivers a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness. Remy…
The recent death of her beloved husband, Rustom, has taken its toll on Tehmina Sethna. Now, while visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home, she is being asked…
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel–a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles…
The sequel to The space between us –Jacket.
Love Your Forever meets On the Night You Were Born in this heartwarming story about a mother’s love for her child.
A timely and timeless picture book about immigration, refugees, acceptance, and tolerance from a NYT bestselling author.
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Thrity N. Umrigar
Now in paperback, this richly endowed first novel examines the complex web of relationships among the inhabitants of a middle-class apartment building in Bombay. At the wedding of a young…
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