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Aug 29, 2024 | 
theisland360.com | Thrity Umrigar
PROGRAMS and EVENTS College: Getting There From Here – All Purpose RoomMonday, September 9, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Whether your children or grandchildren are learning to crawl or learning to drive, you can help make a college education a reality. We’ll discuss questions to consider as you establish a college savings goal, strategies to help you reach your goal and the features and benefits of various education savings plans.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
mindfullibrarian.substack.com | Rachel Slade |Kristi Coulter |Michiko Aoyama |Thrity Umrigar
Hello readers! Today’s newsletter brings you a glimpse at April in Wisconsin, a few links of interest and a roundup of some recent reads ~ let’s dive in! We kicked off April with a really wet heavy snowstorm that lasted from Tuesday morning through Thursday afternoon, but we’re on our way back to spring weather again now! I had the day off on Tuesday and was able to drive the newest voter in our household to the polls for her first-ever election ~ on nasty icy roads, but we made it and she...
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
news.careers360.com | Thrity Umrigar |Navina Chhabria |Aditi Narendra |Sheena Sachdeva
Share Via NEW DELHI: Diwali is a festival of light that is celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Kartik of the Hindu calendar every year. It is a festival that promotes light over darkness. Around this time of the year, people decorate their houses with diyas, rangoli and kandal.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Thrity Umrigar
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Thrity Umrigar’sThe Museum of Failures is a powerful novel of family and secrets.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Thrity Umrigar
In 2019, I, along with millions of other Americans watched in horror at the assaults on immigration and immigrants unleashed by the Trump administration. The Muslim ban, the border wall, the tearing away of infants from the arms of breast-feeding mothers—it all seemed like scenes out of some macabre, dystopian novel.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
guernicamag.com | Thrity Umrigar
In Thrity Umrigar’s tenth novel, Museum of Failures, Remy Wadia returns to India to care for his ailing mother. Beset by guilt for the distance he kept from her during his time in the United States — and his failure to realize just how sick she really is — Remy aims to set things right. He also uncovers an old photograph and a family secret that upends his memories of his childhood, just as he struggles himself with being a father.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
scribd.com | Thrity Umrigar
Photo by Nicola Fioravanti on Unsplash In Thrity Umrigar’s tenth novel, Museum of Failures, Remy Wadia returns to India to care for his ailing mother. Beset by guilt for the distance he kept from her during his time in the United States — and his failure to realize just how sick she really is — Remy aims to set things right. He also uncovers an old photograph and a family secret that upends his memories of his childhood, just as he struggles himself with being a father.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Thrity Umrigar
I have always been drawn to the history and mystique of India, yet I'm familiar with only the most obvious cultural icons: yoga, jewelry and textiles, food (there are three Indian restaurants within a five-block radius of my apartment), plus some favorite novels: A PASSAGE TO INDIA, THE RAJ TRILOGY, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS and CUTTING FOR STONE, to name a few. The contemporary reality is far more complex, as Thrity Umrigar’s new book makes vividly apparent.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Thrity Umrigar |Brittany Bunzey
Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter By Thrity Umrigar In Stock Online Hardcover $28.00 The latest from the author of Honor is a page-turner about family secrets revealed and the realization that our loved ones are often all too human and as such, all too flawed. Written with gorgeous prose and threaded with universal themes, it’s perfect for readers of Lisa Ko or Chibundu Onuzo. We asked Thrity Umrigar five questions about her writing process and inspiration, so keep...
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Thrity Umrigar
Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with Thrity Umrigar, author of the new novel “The Museum of Failures,” which comes out Tuesday. The book centers around Remy, an Indian-American advertising executive, who returns to India to adopt a child and uncovers a wealth of family secrets.
Thrity Umrigar is the author of “The Museum of Failures.” (Laura Watilo Blake)
Book excerpt: ‘The Museum of Failures’
By Thrity Umrigar
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
