Thrity Umrigar, Author . St. Martin's/Picador $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-27716-1
The middle-class denizens of a Bombay apartment complex come to life in Umrigar's engaging debut, which tells the story of a half-dozen protagonists through the prism of a wedding hosted by respected lawyer Jimmy Kanga. Kanga's rise to glory
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Thrity Umrigar, Author . Morrow $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-079155-1
Umrigar's schematic novel (after Bombay Time
) illustrates the intimacy, and the irreconcilable class divide, between two women in contemporary Bombay. Bhima, a 65-year-old slum dweller, has worked for Sera Dubash, a younger upper-middle-class...
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Thrity Umrigar, Author . Morrow $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-06-124023-2
In Umrigar's tender fourth novel, Tehmina "Tammy" Sethna is torn between two cultures that couldn't be more different: Bombay and Cleveland. The former is her homeland, but after her husband's recent death, she's been staying
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Thrity Umrigar, Author . Harper Perennial $14.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-06-145161-4
Freelance journalist Umrigar alternates between sweet and biting accounts of her middle-class Parsi upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Bombay. With a mixture of rawness and warmth, she recalls moments from her tumultuous childhood through her teenage...
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Thrity Umrigar, Author . Harper $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-147254-1
Umrigar (The Space Between Us
) continues her exploration of cultural divides in this beautifully written and incisive novel about an American couple's experience in India. Frank and Ellie Benton, grappling with the death of their seven-year-old
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Thrity Umrigar. Harper, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-193834-4
Umrigar (The Space Between Us) illustrates India’s national identity crisis over the past 40 years through four friends who reconnect in this absorbing novel. Divorcée Armaiti is living in America with a daughter at Harvard when she’s given six...
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Thrity Umrigar. Harper, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-225930-1
The sixth novel from Umrigar (The Space Between Us) is a deeply moving portrait of connection, disconnection, and missed connections set in an unnamed Northeastern university city. Maggie Bose is a black psychologist married to an Indian man; when...
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Thrity Umrigar. Harper, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-244224-6
When nine-year-old Anton first enters foster care, he still believes his mother is coming back for him. However, his new foster father, David Coleman, hopes she stays away for a long time. Since his biological son’s death five years ago, David’s...
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Thrity Umrigar. Harper, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-244220-8
Umrigar’s luminous sequel to The Space Between Us continues the story of Bhima, now bereft of her position as servant in the present-day Mumbai household of Serabai Dubash and desperate to find some way to support herself and her granddaughter, Maya.
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Thrity Umrigar, illus. by Ziyue Chen. Running Press, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7624-6058-8
In her first picture book, adult author Umrigar suggests that a mother’s gifts to her child go far beyond genetics. Alternating between scenes of the pregnant mother and her young daughter, Chen’s images exude warmth and intimacy while helping to...
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Thrity Umrigar. Algonquin, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61620-995-7
Umrigar (Everybody’s Son) returns to themes of India’s evolution and the transformative potential of women’s relationships in her uneven latest. Despite traveling the world as a foreign correspondent, Smita Agarwal has not returned to India, the...
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Thrity Umrigar. Algonquin, $28 (356p) ISBN 978-1-64375-355-3
Umrigar (Honor) returns with another rich and emotionally gripping story about familial love and the destructive power of secrets. Remy Wadia has returned from the U.S. to his hometown of Bombay for the first time since his father’s death three...
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