Author: Thrity Umrigar

The title and the author were both familiar but I could find a record on my website or in Goodreads that I had read the book before. Once I started reading I remembered that I still had a list of books that hadn’t carried over from one website to the other and sure enough I had read it. I loved it just as much this time as I did the first, and I’m excited to read the sequel.

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From my first review:

This book looks at the lives of a middle-class Indian woman and her servant. The difficulties they face in their lives are very different, but the women seem linked by a real friendship. A situation near the end of the book threatens that friendship and we get a glimpse of how status can threaten friendship.