This is by no means the worst of Umrigar’s novels, but it is not her best either. It is a very readable, pleasant novel, set within a Parsi community in Bombay. This novel is fairly conventional, the classic story of...
Thrity Umrigar wrote a nuanced and sensitive exploration of the Indian employer-servant relationship in The Space Between Us, but sad to say, her latest novel Honor displays little of that nuance or sensitivity. There are two women at the center...
~ The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar ~ Umrigar’s love for Bombay, her intimacy with the city, comes through verystrongly in her third novel, as in her earlier two. And once again, Umrigar introduces and familiarises her reader to...
Intimate and revealing conversations
Contrasting Cultures
Her Mind Moves Upon Silence*
Just another clichéd arranged marriage
Forgettable Asian-Americans
Privilege and Hardship: The Wives of Raffles
Idealism and apathy in a turbulent political period
An uncommonly multicultural family with common problems
Same difference?
Family Dynamics
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