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Set in contemporary Mumbai, Thirty Umrigar's The World We Found is the story of four very close friends who have drifted apart in the years following university.  In the 1970s, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita and Nishta were inseparable, but over the next twenty or so years, they have let their busy lives, and their life choices, come between them.

When Armaiti is diagnosed with incurable cancer, she contacts her old friends to ask them to visit her in the United States before she dies.  As the friends reconnect, they each are forced to examine their lives, the choices they have made and the reasons why the friends had grown apart.  Yet, they find that the bonds of love and friendship that once tied them together are still very strong. 

This is a lovely story about those special friendships that survive over many years as well as a look at the complexity of life in modern India.

Thirty Umrigar's previous novel, The Space Between Us, has been a book-club favourite since it was published in 2005.    The World We Found is also available in Large Print.