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Thrity Umrigar

Biography

Thrity Umrigar

Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of 10 novels, including HONOR, which was a Reese's Book Club Pick, as well as three picture books and a memoir. Her books have been published in over 15 countries and in several languages. A former journalist, she has contributed to the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other newspapers. She is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard, and winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Seth Rosenberg prize and a Lambda Literary award. She is currently a Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.

Thrity Umrigar

Books by Thrity Umrigar

The Museum of Failures
by Thrity Umrigar - Fiction

THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES is an immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of HONOR, a Reese’s Book Club pick.

Honor
by Thrity Umrigar - Fiction, Women's Fiction

In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.

The Story Hour
by Thrity Umrigar - Fiction

From Thrity Umrigar, the critically beloved, best-selling author of THE WORLD WE FOUND and THE SPACE BETWEEN US comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about the beauty of forgiveness.

The World We Found
by Thrity Umrigar - Fiction
The Weight of Heaven
by Thrity Umrigar
The Space Between Us
by Thrity Umrigar - Fiction

In this richly textured and engrossing novel, Thrity Umrigar explores the relationship between two women whose connection transcends their place at opposite ends of the social spectrum of modern-day Bombay. Weaving between past and present, Umrigar reveals their shared struggles, their solitary hardships and the secrets that threaten to destroy them both.