Poignant and compelling, evocative and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. But when an unwed Maya becomes pregnant by a man whose identity she refuses to reveal, Bhima's dreams of a better life for her granddaughter, as well as for herself, may be shattered forever. Cursed by fate, she sacrifices all for her beautiful, headstrong granddaughter, Maya, a university student whose education paid for by Sera will enable them to escape the slums. A widow, she devotes herself to her family, spending much of her time caring for her pregnant daughter, Dinaz, a kindhearted, educated professional, and her charming and successful son-in-law, Viraf.īhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. Sera is an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage. Yet despite being separated from each other by blood and class, she and Sera find themselves bound by gender and shared life experiences. She washes glasses from which she is not allowed to drink. She cleans furniture she is not permitted to sit on. In Sera Dubash's home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider.

Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house.

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