Click on the headline to read a nice review by Karen Long in the Plain Dealer:
As a writer who straddles two cultures, Thrity Umrigar takes a gimlet-eyed view of both. In "The Weight of Heaven," the Case Western Reserve University professor casts her native India as "nobody's wallpaper," a crowded, corrupt and incessantly striving country rather than the spiritual haven some Westerners imagine. As for her adopted home, the United States, she sees it as a quick-fix culture where "even grief comes with an expiration date."
Harper, 365 pp., $25.99
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