A Place for Us
A wedding brings the Rafiq family together, including Amar, the youngest child and only son, who walked away from the family years earlier. From that single evening, Fatima Farheen Mirza moves back and forth through the lives of the parents, Rafiq and Layla, and their three children, tracing how an Indian American Muslim family in California holds together and comes apart. The novel looks closely at faith, assimilation, sibling bonds, and a father's regret, building to a final section told in the father's voice that recasts everything before it. It was the debut title of Sarah Jessica Parker's imprint SJP for Hogarth.
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The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
At a daughter's wedding, an Indian American Muslim family reunites with the estranged son who left, and the celebration unspools decades of love, faith, and quiet wounds.
Yes. It was the first book published by SJP for Hogarth, the imprint Sarah Jessica Parker founded, and it became an instant New York Times bestseller in 2018.
A Place for Us was written by Fatima Farheen Mirza, published in 2018 by SJP for Hogarth.
A Place for Us is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, A Place for Us takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
A Place for Us is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
