The World We Found, Thrity Umrigar
The World We Found, Thrity Umrigar
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The World We Found

Author: Thrity Umrigar

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/18/2012

Synopsis

Best-selling author and PEN/Beyond Margins Award finalist Thrity Umrigar's acclaimed novels "resonate with rich prose and vibrant depictions of India" (Booklist). In The World We Found, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta-once friends at the University of Bombay-reconnect 30 years later when Armaiti is diagnosed with cancer. Coming together, all four women are forced to reexamine their lives. "[A] powerful meditation on friendship, on loss, and all the regrets of middle age ." -Boston Globe

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

Goodreads review by Will on August 24, 2022

Thrity Umrigar is the internationally renowned author of The Space Between Us, an impressive tale of class and family in India. In the World We Found, she widens her domain while still writing about caste, class, religion, relationships between women and the need to make difficult choices in life.......more

Goodreads review by Anna on June 28, 2012

This definitely wasn't my favorite Thrity Umrigar book. I did read it to the end, just to find out what happened. Although unlike others before me, I thought the characters were well filled out, and even interesting and varied. I did find it dragged on a bit, and I found the airport scene disturbing......more

Goodreads review by Adite on September 15, 2012

I wish there was a rating between "It was ok" and "I liked it". Maybe a 2.5 stars... an "I liked it in parts." First what I loved about this book. I LOVED the premise of the book. How four friends (Laleh, Kavita, Nishtha/Zoha) connect with each other when one of them (Armaiti) is dying of cancer. I......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on May 27, 2012

Oh my. What a powerful and moving read! I read this somewhat reluctantly for a book group, fearing it would be just another meandering 'women's friendship' tale, albeit with an exotic setting to add some interest, but it was SO much more than that! I'll never think of the tensions between social cla......more

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