“The World We Found” by Thrity Umrigar

Fort Collins Reads has chosen “The World We Found” by Thrity Umrigar as its 2012 one-city, one-book. Umrigar will speak 2:00 p.m. Nov. 4, 2012, at the Hilton.

Published earlier this year, “The World We Found” explores religious, cultural and lifestyle differences in present-day India and the United States. It’s about a group of friends from college whose divergent lives are brought together by misfortune.

Umrigar is an English professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She was born in Mumbai and immigrated to the United States at age 21. She has written five other books, including “The Space Between Us,” “Bombay Times,” “First Darling of the Morning,” “If Today Be Sweet” and “The Weight of Heaven.”

Fort Collins Reads is a volunteer committee that promotes reading and the discussion it prompts. Each year, the committee uses public input to select a book, then organizes events around its themes and hosts the author’s visit to Fort Collins. This year marks the ninth Fort Collins Reads event. Previous selections included “March” by Geraldine Brooks; “ “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein; and “The Tortilla Curtain” by T.C. Boyle.

Tickets to Umrigar’s talk in November will be $5 and go on sale after Labor Day at locally-owned bookstores.

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