
The Space Between Us
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Narrated by:
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Purva Bedi
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By:
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Thrity Umrigar
Best-selling author Thrity Umrigar won the Nieman Fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the PEN/Beyond Margins award with The Space Between Us. Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.
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Never knew such brilliance
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If a true reflection of life in India I feel for the women.
Caste System and Sexism Difficult to Read
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Heart wrenching but hopeful
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Beautiful
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Compelling story told with heart discussing the inequities of the Indian caste
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Kudos also to Purva Bedi. I am not from India, nor am I familiar with the caste system. But her read of these characters from poor to rich feels authentic and no doubt furthers Umrigar’s aims.
Exquisite
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Loved the Reader!
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Thrity's books and especially this book takes you on this rollercoaster ride across generations and helps you understand and accept life with all its ups and downs, especially the downs. Especially with the heart wrenching, life changing downs. It makes you realize some effed up nature of life.
Through the stories of the characters we see parts of Bombay as it is. We smells the smells, hear the sounds, and feel the push of the throngs that flock there. We experience the slums and then we experience the nice privilege of the upper class people. We also learn a lot about cross cultural interactions in India, and opens up perspective of the world in general.
I loved reading this book because it flowed so well, even though the subject material was painful at times to read. I loved it because it took me home. I loved it because it exposed everything that we as an Indian population need to tackle ... Goodness I love Thrity's story telling, and I have so much to learn about how she weaves these tales.
The narrator was pretty good with the accents. But in the first few minutes she pronounced the word lived ... in short lived or long lived very strange, otherwise she did an amazing job.
Now let's close that space...
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The characters were well developed and full of personality. It was difficult to follow the various characters.
Maybe each chapter should have had a name describing who they were mainly going to be speaking about it or capturing the time frame.
AnnieB
A Dip into India
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