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  <name><![CDATA[Thrity Umrigar]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[A journalist for seventeen years, Thrity Umrigar has written for the Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and other national newspapers, and contributes regularly to the Boston Globe's book pages. She teaches creative writing and literature at Case Western Reserve University. The author of The Space Between Us, Bombay Time, and the memoir First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood, she was a winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in English and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. (from the publisher's website)&quot;]]></about>            
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Space Between Us: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[If Today Be Sweet: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Weight of Heaven: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Unti Umrigar Novel #4]]></title>
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