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    <body><![CDATA[In Thrity Umrigar's transportive novel, we come to know Bombay, as well as its residents, in its ugliness, its evocative beauty, and its uniqueness; and find how rare and difficult it is for people to transverse different parts of it, geographically and culturally.<br/> <br/>Throughout The Space B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3451764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bhimi is a servant in contemporary Bombay. She works for Sera Dubash. The class divide between them is vast. Yet there are similarities to their lives that bind them across these lines. Bhima is an old woman with calloused feet, mildewy armpits and an affection for chewing tobacco. She is raising he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34630581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite quote from this book:<br/>&quot;...How, despite our lifelong preoccupation with our bodies, we have never met face-to-face with our kidneys, how we wouldn't recognize our own liver in a row of livers, how we have never seen our own heart or brain. We know more about the depths of the oc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3195837">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had wanted to read this book for a long time and finally got a chance.  Now I have a new author to add to my favorites.  This was a wonderful book and well-written.  I like books set in India.<br/><br/>It is the story of two women - an upperclass Parsi, Sera, and her lower caste illiterate house...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26133085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh.  This is the kind of novel I used to like - exploring gender and class issues in a foreign setting - but I found it unsatisfying.  The author describes the crushing powerlessness of illiteracy and poverty well, but the rest of the book I found overly dramatic.  <br/><br/>*SPOILER ALERT*  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/798934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for October book club.  This was an easy read and well written.  At first I didn't think that it was a good book club book, but after reading several reviews, and finding some recommended discussion questions, determined that it does make for an interesting book club forum.  I finished the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7573911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. The content wasn't always a pleasure but the reading was.  The writing in this book flows like honey even though the message is often bitter. This book looks at class and caste destinctions in India and how even if you love someone, your place in the social spectrum outweighs all....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44774439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a novel about social class in Modern Bombay.  It tells the story of two women - Sena, an upper middle class Parsi woman and her servant Bhima, who resides in the slums.  The novel starts out with two pregnancies, that of 16 year old Maya, Bhima's granddaughter and of Dinaz, Sena's daughter. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48451657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Space Between Us is a fictional look at the relationship between two very different women. Set in modern day India the novel explores how class affects the lives of women. There are two main characters which the novel moves between. One woman is an upper class Parsi housewife, Sera Dubash and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38453211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story follows the lives of two Indian women, separated by class but having intricately connected lives.  One woman, Sera is in a higher class than her servant Dharmi, however, each has lost their husbands and are trying to provide for their children the best they can.  Sera lives with her daugh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62834211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was amazing, absolutely amazing!  Thrity Umigar wrote a book so infinitely real to people and their emotions and drive.  She says that she intended to write a book about class differences, but she wrote about so much more.  She wrote about societies and the balance of power that goes acros...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62630198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Initially I was going to give this a harsher review, but the two books I read subsequently were so unforgivably bad that I had to re-examine.<br/><br/>I don't do India, and this book is certainly a good example of why - you cannot get more depressing. Slums, abuse, cheating, lying and all kinds of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52360983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I grabbed this book at a garage sale last summer only because of the title and cover photo. There was no summary on the inside cover or back cover. The reason I grabbed it was to expand my knowledge of eastern women. What I had discovered was a great book about Sera, a wealthy Parsi woman and her se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71045757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My original intention was to write a scathing review, but then I decided that wouldnt've been entirely fair. Basically, I should not have allowed the beautifully crafted &quot;A Soldier of the Great War&quot; to precede this book. &quot;The Space Between Us&quot; was comparatively a letdown, both in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46754116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i am not familiar with this author, but i tend to like the novels by east Indian authors - whether they tell stories set in India or tell stories of Indian emigrants to the western world.  and that's why i picked it up.  <br/><br/>i'm only a few pages in, but i'm guessing the title refers to the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77545872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It explores the lives of two Indian women and their families.  Bhima is a domestic servant to Sera, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife.  Bhima is living in the slums with her granddaughter, having been forced to move there after the death of her husband.  Sera, too, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48014552">more...</a>]]></body>
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