The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar revisits characters from her earlier novel A Space Between Us. Umrigar is one of my favorite Indian authors. Here she writes about the least visible of all people, a low caste illiterate woman who lives in a slum in Mumbai, and another who is homeless, both struggling to scrape by and hold on to their dignity.
The sights and sounds of Mumbai come alive, and the characters are so real I could not put this book down. It brings to light the most marginalized women in society, those with little chance to rise out of poverty, cast aside simply because of the circumstances of their birth . Yet through strength and perserverance and friendship coming from unlikely places, there is a glimmer of hope. A beautiful book.
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