Thrity Umrigar, who “displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks,” (Washington Post Book World) brings her talent to the social struggles of modern day Bombay in THE SPACE BETWEEN US. “This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.”— Washington Post Book World “Bracingly honest.” — New York Times Book Review   The author of Bombay Time , If Today Be Sweet , and  The Weight of Heaven , Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us —vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family. A portrayal of two women discovering an emotional rapport as they struggle against the confines of a rigid caste system, Umrigar’s captivating second novel echoes the timeless intensity of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God , Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , and Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible —a quintessential triumph of modern literary fiction.