Thrity Umrigar

From Barnes & Noble: “Thrity Umrigar is the author of five novels and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. A former journalist, she is a winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and a finalist for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. A professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio.”

If your book club likes discussing thought-provoking issues like mental health, the immigrant experience, poverty and interracial marriage, then try THE STORY HOUR by Thrity Umrigar. Free printable discussion questions for your next book club discussion.
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TLC Book Tour: The Story Hour Book Review and Discussion Questions

The Story Hour Book Review and Discussion Questions Synopsis from Goodreads: 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…

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The First Darling of the Morning by Thrity Umrigar Memoir Book Review

Synopsis from Goodreads: First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped…

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Book Review: The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar

Synopsis from Goodreads: ” The acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven returns with a breathtaking, skillfully wrought story of four women and the unbreakable ties they share. As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world….