From The Boston Globe: "A taut, suspenseful page-turner with depth, heart, and psychological credibility whose believable and enduring characters ponder the meaning of friendship, the challenges of marriage, and the value of storytelling itself."

From the publisher: "Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in—vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition, class, gender, and family."

The sequel to Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us featuring the unforgettable Bhima. We read The Space Between Us earlier this year in the Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club. Many of us are looking for a book that will take us away to another world right now—and Umrigar does exactly that, transporting us halfway around the globe to contemporary India.

From the publisher: "When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his distance from her. Years later, he returns to Bombay, planning to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl—and to see his elderly mother again before it is too late. She is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life. Struck with guilt for not realizing just how ill she had become, Remy devotes himself to helping her recover and return home. But one day in her apartment he comes upon an old photograph that demands explanation. As shocking family secrets surface, Remy finds himself reevaluating his entire childhood and his relationship to his parents, just as he is on the cusp of becoming a parent himself. Can Remy learn to forgive others for their human frailties, or is he too wedded to his sorrow and anger over his parents' long-ago decisions?"