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The Secrets Between Us
- A Novel
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Publisher's summary
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national best seller, The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel - a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her granddaughter in modern India.
Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than 20 years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired. The sting of that dismissal was made more painful coming from Sera Dubash, the temperamental employer who had long been Bhima’s only confidante. A woman who has endured despair and loss with stoicism, Bhima must now find some other way to support herself and her granddaughter, Maya.
Bhima’s fortunes take an unexpected turn when her path intersects with Parvati, a bitter, taciturn older woman. The two acquaintances soon form a tentative business partnership, selling fruits and vegetables at the local market. As they work together, these two women seemingly bound by fate grow closer, each confessing the truth about their lives and the wounds that haunt them. Discovering her first true friend, Bhima pieces together a new life, and together, the two women learn to stand on their own.
A dazzling story of gender, strength, friendship, and second chances, The Secrets Between Us is a powerful and perceptive novel that brilliantly evokes the complexities of life in modern India and the harsh realities faced by women born without privilege as they struggle to survive.
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Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, brilliantly presents "storytelling in its oldest and truest form".
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Exceptionally good
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The Bastard of Istanbul
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A tender gift from far away
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An ok way to kill some time
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Yiyun Li is the winner of the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Vagrants, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance.
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Lovely prose, good story, deadly narration
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5 Star Worthy
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Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness.
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Good story. Poor ending
- By Janine on 01-14-22
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Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abeo for the 15 years she is held in the shrine. When she is finally rescued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past.
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Searing!
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The Blue Between Sky and Water
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It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother, Mamdouh, tends to the village bees. Their younger sister, Mariam, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends and writing.
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Horrible pronunciation
- By Debra Sabah Press on 11-08-18
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Beyond the Pale
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Beyond the Pale - winner of the Lambda Literary Award - tells the stories of two Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century, capturing their undaunted love and courage in luminous and moving prose. The richly textured novel details Gutke Gurvich's odyssey from her apprenticeship as a midwife in a Russian shtetl to her work in the suffrage movement in New York.
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great historical fiction with a lesbian twist
- By Kelly on 11-25-13
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Half a Lifelong Romance
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Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime?
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super
- By Marcus Aurelius on 10-05-17
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King Peggy
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King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of an American secretary who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 souls on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, and no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins.
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Love King Peggy!
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How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
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N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
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Great! One quibble with the audiobook editing
- By L on 03-05-19
By: N. K. Jemisin
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- Anonymous User
- 06-10-20
Amazing Friendship
Bit of a slow start and confusing characters, but once the key character made a new decisiona nd changed her lifes path, things started flowing.
beautiful characters in a very unusual friendship in Mumbai slums..I could feel the pain of the women, and the triumphs as they overcame abuse, illiteracy and loneliness
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hope
The story of these women's lives kept breaking my heart but as the story progressed , the continued perseverance, beauty and strength of their spirit and the power of hope as written by this author was a believable and moving experience.
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- Lesley
- 06-03-20
Beautiful!
A beautiful story of love, lost, forgiveness and true friendship. I enjoyed every single moment!
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- Renee
- 06-05-20
not as good as the henna artist but enjoyable
kind of slow but a good story, well narrated. I have the henna artist 5 stars but this book 4, some things are over explained.
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- Michelle H. McQuain
- 10-25-20
Listen to This Book!
Loved it! A must listen-to audio book. Poignant, Educational, and Funny. Tour de force .👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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- Sheerless
- 06-19-19
beautiful story, painful but lovely
loved the performance, the Indian accents. Parvatis character is incredible. The end was not my favorite. Thirty is one of my favorite authors and this is by far her best work.
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- Wendy
- 08-12-20
Literature at Its Finest
I could write a review about how utterly beautiful this story is, but that would be redundant since so many other reviewers have done that before me. I will, instead, talk about its virtues as a piece of literature. This book reveals so much about the changing culture of India, life in Mumbai, and, of course, the women who live there. This is not a sentimental book about the lives of women, but a realistic one that reveals the burdens so many women (perhaps of all cultures) carry in secrecy, My favorite line in the story is when Bhima ponders what would happen if women laid down their burdens and just refused to carry them any longer--no more guilt, no more shame, no more heartache. What an incredible concept!
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- Lauren Reynolds
- 09-07-21
My heart is soo full!
This was such a beautiful story from the first book to this one. I love when a story can be soo natural and real but yet have a quality that brings joy to your heart. These characters had such a hard life; various situations and struggles that forced them to step out of their comfort zones and the reward being love and acceptance. I felt so many emotions reading this book and it flowed seamlessly to where I didn’t want to stop listening and took every available moment to listen. I felt apart of the characters lives and at the end truly felt it was complete. Very well written!!
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- RC Satterfield
- 10-25-20
Such a Good Book
I chose this book randomly from a selection offered to me. After reading it, I was looking for another book similar to this one (about other cultures than my own) and saw that this book, The Secrets Between Us, was the sequel to the book I just read, The Space Between Us, by the same author. I ordered it immediately and loved this one as well. I re-read The Space Between Us because I wanted to remind myself how the story continued. I really enjoyed the performances in both books, that brought the characters to life. It is so interesting to me how other people live, how they think, and interact. Their personal histories, that bring them to their choices and decisions that forge their paths are fascinating. There are so many gifted writers. Thrity Umrigar is definitely one of the best. I highly recommend both books. I'll be reading more of her books!
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- Jacqueline
- 11-25-20
Poignant and deeply-layered
Outstanding narrative voice. The interweaving of past and present lives, and the complexities of family, individual struggle and perseverence, are beautifully wrought.
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