© Thrity Umrigar 2015. Bhima, coming from a loving marriage, works diligently to try to provide an education for her granddaughter Maya.
THE SECRETS BETWEEN US by Thrity Umrigar is a beautifully-written and moving sequel to her bestselling novel, THE SPACE BETWEEN US. You read fast to get to the end but slow down at the end to prolong it. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. On a deeper level, the book provides an almost “Siddhartha”-esque experience of sharing a character’s spiritual journey, as the plot takes Bhima and Parvati to places where they must question their preconceptions, search their souls and ultimately change. But they forget—the ocean is also what lies at the bottom, all the broken things stuck in the sand. Through necessity, the women forge a business relationship and eventually a friendship selling produce together in the market. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. It is however smart to do so -- because the writing in each and learning the background of the characters is so critical to understanding "The Secrets".
It is a stand alone, but I truly believe your experience would be much more rich if you read The Space Between Us first. I quickly re-read the first book and fell in love with it all over again. Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar's beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel--a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her granddaughter in modern India. About 18 months ago I bought an iPad with the express intent of reading some eBooks. Please try again. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Secrets Between Us: A Novel. Bhima's fortunes take an unexpected turn when her path intersects with Parvati, a bitter, taciturn older woman. Perhaps the only misstep in The Secrets Between Us occurs at the very end, in a denouement that takes the narrative from dirty realism to pure fairy tale. As they work together, these two women seemingly bound by fate grow closer, confessing to each other the truth about their lives and the wounds that still haunt them. I hope everyone is coping with this crazy COVID-19 situation and hopefully none of you or your loved ones has been affected. Start by marking “The Secrets Between Us” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I've loved everything I've read by this author. Heartbreaking,yet uplifting with coarse yet authentic dialogue, it had me mesmerized from the very start. I feel greedy, but I want just one more. It's the only inconsistency I noticed in an otherwise perfect book, so I have to wonder if it was on purpose or s. That's exactly what I was wondering! You can't really "enjoy" a book like this, despite the high quality of writing (unless you're a sadist). These characters bring into play additional aspects of the byzantine Indian social hierarchy and its attendant moral strictures. THE SECRETS BETWEEN US by Thrity Umrigar is a beautifully-written and moving sequel to her bestselling novel, THE SPACE BETWEEN US. Two women, living in the Mumbai slums, find their worlds intersecting as they try to eke out a living,beginning to understand and appreciate one another's strengths. While Bhima and Maya live in a hovel in Mumbai’s slum, Parvati, the novel’s other main character, sleeps in a doorway, scraping by on the small amounts of food she receives as charity.
Thrity Umrigar is one of my favorite authors and I was thrilled to see this sequel to The Space Between Us. This book is excellent, so sad and beautiful, wonderful writing. “This wonderful novel… is the rich, moving story of an amazing friendship… The lives of Bhima and Parvati are ones of unbelievable poverty and struggle, but the dignity and richness their friendship manifests took my breath away.” — Indies Choice Audiobook of the Year Finalist, “Umrigar’s writing is vivid and elegant in its specificity, and the story is as resilient as its characters.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune, “The Secrets Between Us provides an almost “Siddhartha”-esque experience of sharing a character’s spiritual journey, as the plot takes Bhima and Parvati to places where they must question their preconceptions, search their souls and ultimately change.” — Newsday, “Umrigar’s amazing cast is coupled with shining prose and a plot that consistently startles and gratifies.
I was thrilled, therefore, to see that Umrigar had written a sequel to that novel and enjoyed this one just as much, if not more.