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A Place for Us
A Literary Fiction Novel by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Immigrant Experience,
- Contemporary Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Indian American family dramas set around a wedding reunion
- Siblings navigating cultural expectations and generational divides
- Stories where secrets and betrayals test family bonds
From Little Stack
Your heart will grow two sizes bigger reading this New York Times bestseller about an Indian American family reunited at a wedding.
Decades ago, Rafiq and Layla came to America and raised three kids. But tensions have pulled the family apart in the years since, including controversy over the eldest daughter Hadia’s decision to marry for love and the secrets that have kept the youngest, Amar, estranged from everyone.
I love stories about how big celebrations can often reveal the fault lines in a family, and that’s certainly true in this moving novel.
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, is 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 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.
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