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The weight of heaven a novel

When 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. But an unexpected job half a world away offers them an opp...

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Main Author: Umrigar, Thrity N.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Harper, c2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Married people > Fiction.
Bereavement > Fiction.
Americans > India > Fiction.
Adoption > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Psychological fiction > India.
Summary: When 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. But an unexpected job half a world away offers them an opportunity to start again. Life in Girbaug, India, holds promise -- and peril -- when Frank befriends Ramesh, a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus of the grieving man's attentions. Haunted by memories of his dead son, Frank is consumed with making his family right -- a quest that will lead him down an ever-darkening path with stark repercussions.--From amazon.com.
Physical Description: 365 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780061472541 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0061472549 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780061472558 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0061472557 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Author Notes: Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American writer, who was born in Mumbai. She received her Bachelors of Science from Bombay University. She immigrated to the United States when she was 21.She then went on to earn her M.A. From Ohio State and her Phd from Kent State University. She is a journalist and the author of the novels Bombay Time, The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven. She has written for the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other newspapers, and regularly writes for The Boston Globe 's book pages. She is currently assistant professor of English at Case Western Reserve University where she teaches creative writing and literature. She was a winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in English and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Her title Space Between Us made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2011.

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