A Place For Us is the debut novel by Fatima Farheen Mizra and the first book released by Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint SJP for Hogarth. Its also one of the best books I've read in a long time.
It tells the story of an Indian Muslim family in California, whose children were born and raised in America under strict cultural rules. The novel starts at the oldest daughters wedding, where all the family has gathered for the first time in years; then works its way back and forth through time, painting a complete picture of family and culture, identity and belonging, choices and mistakes made, and the love that survives through it all.
Beautifully written, with characters that became so real to me that I didn't want it to end. An astonishing accomplishment for a debut novel,
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