liz's review
The Space Between Us: A Novel
by Thrity Umrigar
liz's review
The Space Between Us: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
liz's review
rating:
bookshelves:
international,
literary
seem to read a lot of international novels. Hmm... Well, "The Space Between Us" didn't exactly deliver. Does it want to be plot-driven or character-driven? It can't decide! Not enough happens for it to be plot-driven, but I didn't find it strong enough to be truly character-driven. Oh well. The obligatory quote:
Behind the anger is fear, fear as endless and vast and gray as the Arabian Sea, fear for this stupid, innocent, pregnant girl who stands sobbing before her, and for this unborn baby who will come into the world to a mother who is a child herself and to a grandmother who is old and tired to her very bones, a grandmother who is tired of loss, of loving and losing, who cannot bear the thought of one more loss and one more person to love. (page TWELVE).
So it's about Bhima and Sera, who both live in Bombay (not Mumbai, which I found interesting). Bhima has worked as a house servant for Sera for years and years, now lives in a slum but once lived in a chawl, ...more
Behind the anger is fear, fear as endless and vast and gray as the Arabian Sea, fear for this stupid, innocent, pregnant girl who stands sobbing before her, and for this unborn baby who will come into the world to a mother who is a child herself and to a grandmother who is old and tired to her very bones, a grandmother who is tired of loss, of loving and losing, who cannot bear the thought of one more loss and one more person to love. (page TWELVE).
So it's about Bhima and Sera, who both live in Bombay (not Mumbai, which I found interesting). Bhima has worked as a house servant for Sera for years and years, now lives in a slum but once lived in a chawl, ...more
