A Place for Us

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Pub Date 14 Jun 2018 | Archive Date 14 Jul 2018

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** The New York Times bestseller **

'To be taken hostage by Fatima Mirza’s heartrending and timely story is a gutting pleasure... She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading. I guarantee you will be different when you close the book' Sarah Jessica Parker

A Place for Us catches an Indian Muslim family as they prepare for their eldest daughter’s wedding. But as Hadia’s marriage -- one chosen of love, not tradition -- gathers the family back together, there is only one thing on their minds: can Amar, the estranged younger brother of the bride, be trusted to behave himself after three years away?

A Place for Us tells the story of one family, but all family life is here. Rafiq and Layla must come to terms with the choices their children have made, while Hadia, Huda and Amar must reconcile their present culture with their parents’ world, treading a path between old and new. And they must all learn how the smallest decisions can lead to the deepest betrayals.

This is a novel for our times: a deeply moving examination of love, identity and belonging that turns our preconceptions over one by one. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.

** The New York Times bestseller **

'To be taken hostage by Fatima Mirza’s heartrending and timely story is a gutting pleasure... She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to...


A Note From the Publisher

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.

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...


Advance Praise

Beautiful, intimate, tender. So vividly told the characters live and breathe
RACHEL JOYCE

This powerful, intricate debut is essential reading
NOVIOLET BULAWAYO

A triumph and an inspiration
KAREN RUSSELL

I felt such gratitude reading this fiercely compassionate debut, and such joy at discovering a voice I will follow for the rest of my life
GARTH GREENWELL

Beautiful, intimate, tender. So vividly told the characters live and breathe
RACHEL JOYCE

This powerful, intricate debut is essential reading
NOVIOLET BULAWAYO

A triumph and an inspiration
KAREN RUSSELL

I...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781781090695
PRICE £14.99 (GBP)
PAGES 400

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