If Today Be Sweet - A Novel

The recent death of her beloved husband has taken its toll on Tehmina Sethna. Now, while visiting her son in his suburban Ohio home, she is being asked to choose between continuing her old life in India and starting a new one in this unfamiliar country with her son, his American wife, and their child. Her destiny is uncertain, and soon the plight of two troubled young children next door will force the most difficult decision she has ever faced. Ultimately the journey is one that Tehmina must travel alone. If Today Be Sweet is a beautifully written novel that follows a widow dealing with the loss of her husband, culture, and country from bestselling author Thrity Umrigar.

About the author

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.
 

Product details

• Authors: Thrity Umrigar, Umrigar Thrity
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2008
• EAN: 9780061240249
• ISBN: 978-0-06-124024-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: WORLD FICTION, DRAMA: Women Authors, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, FICTION: World Literature / American / General, FICTION: Asian American & Pacific Islander