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The World We Found (2012)

I really enjoyed this book. It gives the reader an insightful look into modern Indian culture and its juxtaposed with modern American life.The story develops around four women who have been friends from childhood, have drifted apart in adulthood but are called together by Armaiti who is diagnosed...

The World We Found (2012) by Thrity Umrigar
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The Story Hour LP: A Novel (2014)

An excellent story about an immigrant wife who attempts suicide and befriends her psychiatrist who has issues of her own. Most of the story flip flops between the two women, Lakshmi's chapters in her broken English, Maggie's in a third person narrative. Lots of good stuff in here about marriage...

The Story Hour LP: A Novel (2014) by Thrity Umrigar
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First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (2003)

A poignant and brave exploration of childhood's less lovely spaces, First Darling is a sensitive, vividly-relived memoir that captures the innocence and confusion of a small Indian girl struggling against the paradoxes that rock her life. Told with startling honesty, the memoir paints an unforget...

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (2003) by Thrity Umrigar
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If Today Be Sweet (2007)

Tehmina Sethna's beloved husband has died this past year and she is visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home. Now Tehmina is being asked to choose between her old, familiar life in India and a new one in Ohio with her son, his American wife, and their child. She must decide whether to l...

If Today Be Sweet (2007) by Thrity Umrigar
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The Space Between Us (2007)

The Space Between Us is a fictional look at the relationship between two very different women. Set in modern day India the novel explores how class affects the lives of women. There are two main characters which the novel moves between. One woman is an upper class Parsi housewife, Sera Dubash and...

The Space Between Us (2007) by Thrity Umrigar
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Bombay Time (2002)

This novel follows a different style of story-telling. It tells the stories of the different occupants of Wadia Baug, an apartment complex in Bombay, housing a well-knit Parsi community. In the throes of their late middle-age, the members of the community nostalgically look back at their lives an...

Bombay Time (2002) by Thrity Umrigar
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The Weight of Heaven

Tinsel Tina, he’d called her. And then he’d turned those blue eyes on her and said, “But you’re the real deal, Ellie. You’re the first person Frank has dated that I think is deserving of him.” She had tried to tease him, make light of his stout love for his brother, but Scott was having none of i...

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