Book Review: A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

A Place For Us
by Fatima Farheen Mirza (Mirza)

A Place For Us is a multi-generational, non-linear domestic fiction novel. Fatima Farheen Mirza creates a moving, thoughtful novel based on family life in America from the perspective of East Indian Americans. The point of view changes based on who is narrating the chapter, jumping back and forth from the present to memories of the narrating character at different ages and time frames. This religiously diverse work offers insight to the struggle of culture conflict and a sense of belonging in a post 9/11 world.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Salt Houses by Hala Alyan, Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea, or Digging to America by Anne Tyler]

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[ publisher’s official A Place For Us web page ] | [ official Fatima Farheen Mirza web site ]

Recommended by Rio B.
Bennett Martin Public Library – Public Service

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