Thrity Umrigar

The author of The Space Between Us describes four friends who met as university students in Bombay in the late 1970s as they struggle to reconnect and reunite at the deathbed of one of their group. 50,000 first printing.

A Novel

The World We Found

Fran Lewis

This was a book club read. It was interesting to see how the four friends went on to their separate lives and what different lives they lived.

Caroline Mao

4.25 stars

A lovely and touching book. Some of the dialogue felt unrealistically poetic (read: pretentious) at times, but still enchanting and beautiful and a hell of a lot better than John Green, anyway. Fantastic, three-dimensional characterisation and an ability to juggle multiple third person points of view and different intersecting storylines, all adorned with a almost-but-not-excessively poetic writing style, in a way that reminds me of Khaled Hosseini. The women are especially well-written. I adore them.

Goddammit, I really want a sequel. You can't just leave me hanging on that ending, Umrigar!

Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven, returns with a breathtaking new novel—a skillfully wrought, emotionally resonant story of four women and the indelible friendship they share. Fans of Jennifer Haigh’s Faith, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, and Katrina Kittle’s The Kindness of Strangers will be captivated by Umrigar’s The World We Found—a moving story of bottled secrets, unfulfilled dreams, and the acceptance that can still lead to redemption, from a writer whom the New York Times calls “perceptive and often piercing.”

The World We Found A Novel

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