The Space Between Us

Name: The Space Between Us
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.87 (8 reviews)
Author: Thrity Umrigar
ISBN: 9781470337087

Author: Thrity Umrigar

Narrator: Purva Bedi

Unabridged: 12 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Best-selling author Thrity Umrigar won the Nieman Fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the PEN/Beyond Margins award with The Space Between Us. Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.

About Thrity Umrigar

Thrity Umrigar is the author of seven novels Everybody's Son, The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time; a memoir, First Darling of the Morning; and a children's picture book, When I Carried You in My Belly. A former journalist, she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a finalist for the PEN Beyond Margins Award. A professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Sharon on 2009-11-30 18:48:36

I really enjoyed reading this book. The story is beautifully told, and I was captivated by the author, but I did feel the end of the book was very abrupt, which is why I gave it 4 stars.

Goodreads review by Colby on September 19, 2015

My favorite quote from this book: "...How, despite our lifelong preoccupation with our bodies, we have never met face-to-face with our kidneys, how we wouldn't recognize our own liver in a row of livers, how we have never seen our own heart or brain. We know more about the depths of the ocean, are mo......more

Goodreads review by Carol on December 04, 2015

What a fitting title for this book! The story is a shattering account of the soul crushing poverty of an Indian servant juxtaposed alongside her employer, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife. Bhima lives in a slum; but for over 20 years she has worked in the household of Sera Dubash. Over time, th......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on August 13, 2014

This is a beautifully written story telling the side by side yet intertwined stories of two women from different classes in Bombay , India . It's sad , really heartbreaking at times as we come to know the stories of Sera , a wealthy woman, and her loyal servant , Bhimi , whose life in the slums is a......more