A Place for Us

by Mirza, Fatima Farheen
ISBN: 9781524763558
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICK

Named One of the Best Books of 2018 by: Washington Post - NPR - People - Refinery29 - Parade - Buzzfeed


"Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things." -- RON CHARLES, Washington Post

"A Place for Us is a book for our times." -- CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR

The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging

As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister's footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best?

A Place for Us takes us back to the beginning of this family's life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla's own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children--each in their own way--tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home.

A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Mirza, Fatima Farheen
  • ISBN: 9781524763558
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.30 x 1.40
  • Number Of Pages: 400
  • Publication Year: 2018

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  • An engaging, heartbreaking story about family, love and identity.

    Julie S. - 5 years 8 months ago

    A moving portrait of an Indian-American Muslim family, A Place for Us dives straight into the heart of what it means to be a family, what it means to be an individual and what it means to belong. As all the members of one family gather to celebrate the eldest daughters wedding, each family member looks back at crucial moments in their past as the three children have searched for the place they belong in the world, in their culture, in their faith and in their family. Mirza goes back and forth in time and from one perspective to another, letting the reader see the thoughts and feelings behind every circumstance and every consequence, showing how without understanding, even acts of love can turn into acts of betrayal.

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