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Authors: Thrity Umrigar
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arm around his chest. “Are you cold, honey?” Ellie asked, and Ben shook
his head no.
They sat that way, drinking in the last, sweet drops of the day. The
sun hovered at the edge of the horizon, declining to go down, like Benny
refusing to go to bed.
All around them, the earth was sighing. They joined in its miraculous
breathing.
The following (in alphabetical order) helped this novel happen:
Dr. Blaise Congeni,
director of pediatric infectious diseases at Akron
Children’s Hospital, for sharing his medical expertise with me
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve
University,
for a much-needed fellowship
Kim Emmons,
for long talks on long walks
Sarah Gridley,
conspirator in mischief and creativity
Mary Grimm,
who suggested turning a short story into this novel
Eustathea Kavouras,
who never stops believing in me
Kulfi and Baklava,
superhero cats
Annerieke Owen,
wife of the U.S. Consul General in Bombay, for a prompt
resolution to a specific question
Marly Rusoff,
the most hardworking agent on the planet
Noshir and Homai Umrigar,
my forever people
Claire Wachtel,
my irrepressible editor
Sarah Willis,
thoughtful critic, generous friend
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
—Vi rgi n i a Wo ol f
Me, too.
—T.U.
THRITY UMRIGAR is the author of three other novels—
The Space Between
Us
,
If Today Be Sweet
, and
Bombay Time
—and the memoir
First Darling of
the Morning
. A journalist for seventeen years, she is the winner of the
Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and a 2006 finalist for the PEN/Beyond
margins Award. An associate professor of English at Case Western reserve
University, Umrigar lives in Cleveland.
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F i ct i o n
If Today Be Sweet
The Space Between Us
Bombay Time
Nonf iction
First Darling of the Morning
Jacket photograph © Aroon Thaewchatturat/Jupiterimages
Jacket design by Christine Van Bree
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