The Weight of Heaven
By Thrity Umrigar
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061472558, 400pp.)
Publication Date: January 13, 2010
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Large Print (March 26, 2009), Hardcover (March 20, 2009)
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the April 2009 Indie Next ListWhen Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. Then an unexpected job half a world away in Girbaug, India, offers them an opportunity to start again. But Frank's befriending of Ramesh—a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus of his attentions—will lead the grieving man down an ever-darkening path with stark repercussions.
A devastating look at cultural clashes and divides, Thrity Umrigar's The Weight of Heaven is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control.
Thrity Umrigar, a journalist and associate professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of three previous novels, If Today Be Sweet, The Space Between Us, and Bombay Time, and a memoir, First Darling of the Morning. She lives in Cleveland.
"Umrigar beautifully illuminates how human relationships are complicated by cultural, geographical, and class divides."
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