Space Between Us

This is a story intimately and compassionately toldagainst the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay. --<em>Washington Post Book World </em><br /> <br />Bracingly honest.<em> --New York Times Book Review </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 at adept andcompelling in <em>The Space Between Us</em>--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 <em>Their Eyes Were WatchingGod</em> Betty Smith's <em>A Tree Grows inBrooklyn</em> and Barbara Kingsolver's <em>ThePoisonwood Bible</em>--a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.