A Place for Us Synopsis
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "5 UNDER 35" NOMINEE NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICK
Named One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post NPR People Refinery29 Parade BuzzFeed
"Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things."-Ron Charles, Washington Post
Hailed as "a book for our times" (Christiane Amanpour), 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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781524763565 |
| Publication date: |
5th March 2019 |
| Author: |
Fatima Farheen Mirza |
| Publisher: |
Hogarth an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
400 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
|
| Other Genres: |
|
| Recommendations: |
|
Fatima Farheen Mirza Press Reviews
I loved every minute of this novel; Mirza's prose and her story squeezed my heart, and I had to take a very long, deep breath upon finishing the book. This is a writer to watch out for - Stylist
Told with tender delicacy, A Place for Us is a moving and joyful portrait of a modern family, about growing up between two cultures, reconciling with the past, and identity as a lived experience - Independent
A brilliant, highly readable contemporary tale of identity and belonging - Elle
Textured and keenly felt... profound... stuck with me long after I finished the book's final page -- Lauren Christiansen - Scotland on Sunday
A modern family saga, it follows the conflict between duty, tradition and temptation... bold in its subject matter and moving -- Patricia Nicol - Sunday Times
Extraordinary in its depth... slow-brewing, affecting - Booklist
About Fatima Farheen Mirza
Fatima Farheen Mirza was born in California in 1991 and raised there. Her parents are of Indian descent; her mother grew up in Birmingham, her father in Hyderabad. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. A PLACE FOR US is her first novel.
More About Fatima Farheen Mirza
