{"title":"Thrity Umrigar","description":"Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of nine previous novels, including Honor, which was a Reese's Book Club Pick, as well as four picture books and a memoir. Her books have been published in over twenty countries and in several languages. A former journalist, she has contributed to the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other newspapers. She is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard, and winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Seth Rosenberg prize and a Lambda Literary award. She is currently a Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.","products":[{"product_id":"missing-sam-paperback","title":"Missing Sam - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife's determination to both find her and clear her own name--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHonor.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple Aliya and Sam and the night ends badly with a heated argument. Sam goes for a run early the next morning to clear her head--and doesn't come back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aliya reports her wife missing, but as a gay, Muslim daughter of immigrants, she can't escape the scrutiny and suspicion of those around her. 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Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level. . . . Umrigar . . . is a descriptive master.\" -- \u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Space Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e, comes \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e. In the rich tradition of the acclaimed works of Indian writers such as Rohinton Mistry, Akhil Sharma, Indra Sinha, and Jhumpa Lahiri, \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e is an emotionally charged story about unexpected death, unhealed wounds, and the price one father will pay to protect himself from pain and loss. Additionally, it offers unique perspectives, both Indian and American, on the fragmented nature of globalized India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. Then an unexpected job half a world away in Girbaug, India, offers them an opportunity to start again. But Frank's befriending of Ramesh--a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus of his attentions--will lead the grieving man down an ever-darkening path with stark repercussions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA devastating look at cultural clashes and divides, Thrity Umrigar's \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101536653535,"sku":"9780061472558","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/R0V4bXhUeDZSUXhYMUttaURxS0lqZz09.webp?v=1781071679"},{"product_id":"the-space-between-us-paperback","title":"The Space Between Us - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Bracingly honest.\"\u003cem\u003e --New York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Thrity Umrigar's critically acclaimed and bestselling novel--a luminous, unforgettable story of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family set in modern-day India.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Space Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e 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 disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, Umrigar's extraordinary novel demonstrates how the lives of the rich and poor are intrinsically connected yet vastly removed from each other, and how the strong bonds of womanhood are eternally opposed by the divisions of class and culture. It is a story that echoes the timeless intensity of Zora Neale Hurston's \u003cem\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/em\u003e, Betty Smith's \u003cem\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e, and Barbara Kingsolver's \u003cem\u003eThe Poisonwood Bible\u003c\/em\u003e--a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoignant, evocative, and unforgettable, \u003cem\u003eThe Space Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e 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 disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, author Thrity Umrigar's extraordinary novel demonstrates how the lives of the rich and poor are intrinsically connected yet vastly removed from each other, and how the strong bonds of womanhood are eternally opposed by the divisions of class and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101540126943,"sku":"9780062067890","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eUt1RVMrYWhEamF6OUZKU3FzRG4xZz09.webp?v=1781071685"},{"product_id":"the-story-hour-paperback","title":"The Story Hour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Thrity Umrigar has an uncanny ability to look deeply into the human heart and find the absolute truth of our lives. \u003cem\u003eThe Story Hour\u003c\/em\u003e is stunning and beautiful. Lakshmi and Maggie will stay with readers for a very long time.\" -- Luis Alberto Urrea, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hummingbird's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the critically beloved, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe World We Found\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Space Between U\u003c\/em\u003es, whom the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e calls a \"perceptive and . . . piercing writer,\" comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. 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