Borders features Thrity's book.

The Thrity Umrgirar novel, The Space Between Us, is feaured in a New Picks promotion of Borders Book Stores mailed to subscribers this week. The promo shows the book cover here with the teaser "A bond that transcends Bombaby's stringent social justice."

But wait. Thirty has a new book just out March 29 titled: If Today Be Sweet

Here is a quick review by Publisher's Weekly:
In Umrigar's tender fourth novel, Tehmina "Tammy" Sethna is torn between two cultures that couldn't be more different: Bombay and Cleveland. The former is her homeland, but after her husband's recent death, she's been staying with her son and his family in America. Tehmina loves being near grandson Cookie, but she often feels like an intruder in her American daughter-in-law's home, and she's disconcerted by the changes in her son, Sorab, who is stressed from the corporate rat race. Though Tehmina's loneliness floods her with memories of her husband, the Parsi community back in India and her traditional ways, she finds no small amount of purpose (and celebrity) in Cleveland after suspecting her neighbor of child abuse and intervening on the children's behalf. Immigration laws, meanwhile, force her to decide whether she'll remain in Cleveland or return to Bombay. Umrigar (The Space Between Us) shows the unseemly side of American excess and prejudice while gently reminding readers of opportunities sometimes taken for granted.

This blog first mentioned Thrity's The Space Between Us in a post on January 21, 2006 which summarized a couple of book reviews:

Umrigar is a skilled storyteller, and her memorable characters will live on for a long time. ---Washington Post

Part of what makes "The Space Between Us" so engrossing is its ability to make readers feel empathy for its subjects. ---San Francisco Chronicle

Visit Thrity's website: http://www.umrigar.com/
Don’t miss the great interview of her. She gives the BJ a plug as a still great newspaper. And also see the articles–especially the one titled “Good Night, Fran.:”

http://www.umrigar.com/articles/column4.html

Thanks for letting us know about the promo go to Jim Kavanagh, who spent 15 years at the Beacon Journal (1991-2006) before moving on to CNN in Atlanta.