Bombay Time by Thrity N Umrigar

Bombay Time by Thrity N Umrigar

Bestselling author Thrity Umrigar's deeply felt first novel set in modern India, Bombay Time.

At the wedding of a young man from a middle-class apartment building in Bombay, the men and women of this unique community gather together and look back on their youthful, idealistic selves and consider the changes the years have wrought. The lives of the Parsi men and women who grew up together in Wadi Baug are revealed in all their complicated humanity: Adi Patel's disintegration into alcoholism; Dosamai's gossiping tongue; and Soli Contractor's betrayal and heartbreak. And observing it all is Rusi Bilimoria, a disillusioned businessman who struggles to make sense of his life and hold together a fraying community.

Bombay Time, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, The Weight of Heaven, The World We Found, and The Story Hour are among Thrity Umrigar's best-selling novels. She's also the author of First Sweetheart of the Morning, a memoir. Her books have been published in over fifteen countries and have been translated into various languages. She teaches English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland as the Armington Professor of English.