If Today Be Sweet, Thrity Umrigar
If Today Be Sweet, Thrity Umrigar
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If Today Be Sweet
A Novel

Author: Thrity Umrigar

Narrator: Jeed Saddy

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women

Synopsis

The recent death of her beloved husband, Rustom, has taken its toll on Tehmina Sethna. Now, while visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home, she is being asked to choose between continuing her old life in India and starting a new one in this unfamiliar country with her son, his American wife, and their child. Her destiny is uncertain, and soon the plight of two troubled young children next door will force the most difficult decision she has ever faced. Ultimately the journey is one that Tehmina must travel alone.

About Thrity Umrigar

Thrity Umrigar is the author of seven novels Everybody's Son, The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time; a memoir, First Darling of the Morning; and a children's picture book, When I Carried You in My Belly. A former journalist, she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a finalist for the PEN Beyond Margins Award. A professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erica on June 23, 2008

I really enjoyed this book. Great infomation about Indian culture. In Umrigar's tender fourth novel, Tehmina "Tammy" Sethna is torn between two cultures that couldn't be more different: Bombay and Cleveland. The former is her homeland, but after her husband's recent death, she's been staying with her......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 23, 2018

I love Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven are two of my favorite books. But If Today Be Sweet was just an okay read. Thrity is at her best writing about India and Bombay. This book took place in Ohio (no offense to my friends in Ohio) with flash backs of life in Bombay, so......more

Goodreads review by Susmita on July 21, 2013

A beautiful book. Poignant, heart-wrenching, humourous and poetic. Thrity Umrigar at her best.......more

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