The Story Hour

Written by Thrity Umrigar

Narrated by Sneha Mathan

A profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship from bestselling author Thrity Umrigar.--An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains distance from her patients, until she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn’t need a shrink; she needs a friend.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Aug 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781666603422

Thrity Umrigar

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.  

Reviews for The Story Hour

[Jan · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Lovely story but I hated that it was told in so much broken English.

[ryanjaymce · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Beautiful narration and great book that especially picked up in the end.