num_pages: 321
description: “This is a story intimately and compassionately told against 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 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. A portrayal of two woman 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.
language: English
title: The Space Between Us
titlecomplete: The Space Between Us
characters: Maya, Bhima, Sera Dubash
genres: Womens, India, Contemporary, Cultural, Asia, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 48723
places: India
series: Between Us
publisher: William Morrow