Thrity Umrigar’s THE CLARIFYING PRINCIPLE, the story of four 50- year-old Indian women and what happens when one of them, now married and living in America, learns she is dying and comes to feel deeply how much she missed by leaving behind her three best women friends from college, and their decision to travel from India to be with her one last time to Harper’s Claire Wachtel in a good deal by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World except Germany)