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Welcome to Umrigar.com, the online home of novelist and journalist Thrity Umrigar.

About Thrity's latest book:
The Weight of Heaven

"A beautifully written and incisive novel about an American couple's experience in India. . .Umrigar establishes herself as a singularly gifted storyteller."
---Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"A morality tale tuned to our times."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Brimming with dark humor and moral insight, The Weight of Heaven packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level."
---Christian Science Monitor
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Listen to an online interview with Thrity at bookclubgirl.com


Previous Books:

The Space Between Us: Distance and intimacy; Out of India's seething hotch-potch of humanity Thrity Umrigar has created two vivid female characters, each representative of thousands of real-life Indian women. - The Economist Read more>

First Darling: A poignant and brave exploration of childhood's less lovely spaces, First Darling is a sensitive, vividly-relived memoir that captures the innocence and confusion of a small Indian girl struggling against the paradoxes that rock her life. Told with startling honesty, the memoir paints an unforgettable picture of middle-class life in contemporary Bombay. Read more>

 
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