A place for us a novel
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 foo...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
SJP for Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 385 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781524763558 1524763551 |
| Author Notes: | Fatima Farheen Mirza was born in 1991 in California. Her parents are of Indian descent; her mother is from Birmingham, her father from 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. (Bowker Author Biography) |
