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Missing Sam by Thrity Umrigar

Catherine — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:12:42 +0000

It’s the July 4th weekend when Ali‘s wife Sam goes missing on her early morning run in their upscale Cleveland Heights neighborhood. Her disappearance sets in motion events that keep Thrity Umrigar’s new novel, Missing Sam, at a slow burn over the mystery, but ignites a blaze in the response the community has to the […]

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The Museum of Failures

Catherine — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:50:17 +0000

It’s been years since Remy Wadia has been back to Bombay, where he was born and raised. It was his father’s fervent wish that he go to America for university and then settle there, which Remy did. Now, he’s returning to adopt a baby as he and his wife have not been able to conceive. […]

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Honor: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar

Catherine — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:05:03 +0000

When Smita arrives in Mumbai she thinks she’s there to help a good friend undergoing surgery. Otherwise, even as a global journalist, she has never returned to the country her family left when she was a teenager. Now, in Thrity Umrigar’s new novel, Honor, she’s forced to confront her past while coming face-to-face with another […]

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The Secrets Between Us

Catherine — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:07:43 +0000

By the end of Thrity Umrigar’s novel, The Space Between Us, Bhima had been fired from her job as Sera’s household servant, after being accused of stealing money from the family. For Bhima, living alone while trying to raise her granddaughter, Maya, in one of Mumbai’s many slums, this was a catastrophic event. She had […]

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Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar

Catherine — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:28:16 +0000

This month Thrity Umrigar’s novel, Everybody’s Son, was released in paperback so I’m revisiting my review of this entertaining and thought provoking book. Even more good news: Umrigar has a new novel, The Secrets Between Us, coming out later this month. It’s a sequel to her novel, The Space Between Us, which is my favorite of her […]

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Everybody’s Son: A Novel

Catherine — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:21:48 +0000

When a novel opens during a heat wave with a ten-year-old boy breaking a window to get out of an apartment with no electricity after being left alone for a week while his mother goes out to buy drugs it doesn’t seem as if much nuance to the story can follow. Unless the author is […]

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It’s Monday, June 5th: What Are You Reading?

Catherine — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:16:12 +0000

In case you didn’t know, I’m a big fan of synchronicity. Coincidence is so boring when you can choose to believe that the most random things are part of a greater pattern! So…how awesome is it that my Monday reading is A) one of my favorite authors B) she lives in Cleveland and C) I’M […]

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The Story Hour

Catherine — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:39:30 +0000

When it comes to the workings of the human heart there are few who tell tales so consistently unexpected and with such depth as Thrity Umrigar. Her newest novel, The Story Hour, is about the lonely Lakshmi and Maggie, the psychologist assigned to work with her after she tries to kill herself. Lakshmi came […]

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The World We Found

Catherine — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:02:46 +0000

College is the last stand for the enthusiasm and idealism of youth and for four friends in Bombay it was where they cemented the friendship they believed would last throughout their lives. Then the world stepped in and the passions of Laleh, Armaiti, Kavita, and Nishta gave way to the realities of life. It isn’t […]

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