The Space Between Us (29 page)
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Authors: Thrity Umrigar
As always, this book was made possible by the love, encouragement, and support of all my friends and family. Although you are too numerous to name, I hope you know who you are and what a vital role you play in my life.
As always, a special thanks, Noshir and Homai Umrigar, for your constant prayers, good wishes, and kind words. Thank you, Eustathea Kavouras, for your unflagging support and encouragement.
Thank you, Arkady Lerner, for restoring my hands; thank you, Sarah Willis, for your great generosity in reading the manuscript and for your invaluable suggestions; thank you, Mary Grimm, for your optimism, which saw me through dark days. Marly Rusoff, thank you for your faith in me. This book would not have been possible without all your help.
A
journalist for seventeen years,
THRITY UMRIGAR
has written for the
Washington Post
, the
Plain Dealer
, and other national newspapers, and contributes regularly to the
Boston Globe
�s book pages. She teaches creative writing and literature at Case Western Reserve University. The author ofthe novel
Bombay Time and the memoir First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
, she was a winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in English and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
www.umrigar.com
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This book is a work of fiction. References to real establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author�s imagination and are not to be construed as real.
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
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ePub Edition December 2005 ISBN 9780061752605
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Umrigar, Thrity N.
The space between us: a novel/Thrity Umrigar.� 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-079155-1 (acid-free paper)
ISBN-10: 0-06-079155-1
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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