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The Story Hour: A Novel
Thrity Umrigar
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Description for The Story Hour: A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 205 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a perceptive and ...piercing writer, comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances. An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to ... Read more
From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a perceptive and ...piercing writer, comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances. An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062259318
SKU
V9780062259318
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Ref
99-15
About Thrity Umrigar
Thrity Umrigar is the author of five other novels-The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time-and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. An award-winning journalist, she has been a contributor to the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Huffington Post, among other publications. She is the winner of the ... Read more
Reviews for The Story Hour: A Novel
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.
Boston Globe With grace, wisdom and incredible compassion, Thrity Umrigar has woven together the lives of two seemingly dissimilar women who must learn-against steep odds-to forgive each ... Read more
Boston Globe With grace, wisdom and incredible compassion, Thrity Umrigar has woven together the lives of two seemingly dissimilar women who must learn-against steep odds-to forgive each ... Read more