IF TODAY BE SWEET, a new book by Thrity Umrigar, whose recent novel The Space Between Us became a #1 Booksense pick for February 2006. In this third novel, Umrigar tells the story of a widowed Indian woman who must chose between joining her only son in America, giving up home, hometown, neighbors, friends or facing her last years alone in her Bombay apartment was sold to Harper VP Claire Wachtel for publication by William Morrow in 2007 in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff. World but German.