

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
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
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.
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
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