A special thank you to Edelweiss and Harper for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Thrity Umrigar is a beautiful writer who capitalizes on human emotion in her latest novel about two families that couldn't be more different. During a terrible heatwave in 1991, ten-year-old Anton has been...
Gosh, I began this novel with such high hopes!!! It contains some of the most provocative and lyrically poetic prose that I've ever read, but it does not reach any sort of.... well... it just goes no where. I feel smarter about Bombay, and India in general, and I have to admire the fact that the t...
I have always been fascinated by this intersection of gender and class--how the lives of women from the working class and the middle-class seemed at once so connected and so removed from each other.- Thrity Umrigar The Story Hour is a compelling, close examination of the lives of two quite differe...
The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar is story of two women who are more than just doctor and patient but not quite friends either. Maggie ends up as Lakshmi's psychologist after Lakshmi attempts suicide. Through alternating chapters in their voices, we learn of Maggie's and Lakshmi's stories. For a vari...
Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and d...
Storytelling and helping others was what Lakshmi did best along with her cooking and work ethics. Her life was a story to tell, and she had Maggie to listen and to learn from her stories. THE STORY HOUR takes the reader through the lives of Lakshmi and Maggie...one the patient and one the doctor. ...
I received this book from the firstreads program.This story is mainly a web of relationships. Two very different marriages and the friendship between the two women (Maggie and Lakshmi) who start as psychologist-patient. These relationships are the stars of the show, and Umrigar does a good job dev...
The Space Between Us is set in Bombay, India. It is very far away. I am familiar with it only through literature and TV news snippets. Thrifty Umrigar, the author and a seasoned journalist, draws an exacting picture of the two Bombays that the middle class Sera, a Parsi and Bhima, a Hindu servant in...
This is a gorgeous story about friendship, family relationships and the artificial barriers created between the classes in India. From the first page, I was sucked into the life of Bhima, a hardworking servant to an upper middle class, Parsi housewife named Sera. Bombay is powerfully present as t...
I have such mixed feelings about this one. On the plus side, it was well written, and the characters (for the most part) seemed real to me. I cared about their problems and wanted to see them resolved with the least harm done. But, that's not what happened. Oh, the "central" problem was resolved, bu...
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