A Place for Us
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Narrated by:
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Sunil Malhotra
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Deepti Gupta
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Written by:
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Fatima Farheen Mirza
About this listen
Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza, read by Deepti Gupta and Sunil Malhotra.
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.
'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
'Beautiful, intimate, tender. So vividly told the characters live and breathe' Rachel Joyce
'A brilliant, highly readable contemporary tale of identity and belonging' Elle
Critic Reviews
"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)
"Beautiful, intimate, tender. So vividly told the characters live and breathe." (Rachel Joyce)
"A brilliant, highly readable contemporary tale of identity and belonging." (Elle)
The narration by Deepti Gupta is brilliant, How effectively and with ease she can change her voice to suit the character? The same voice that sounds like a child sometimes, like a teenager at others, like and Indian born mom or an angry adult, the soothing voice of a mother or the bitterness of an unloved son. This narrator does deserve special praise ,
A debut to rave ..
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The story has its moments with its premise irrespective of religion I think all of us like Amar question our connection and our parents enforcement of it.. however the toggled narration between different time periods makes the story less memorable especially in the audiobook format. I do not think in book format it would be any better too.
Overall an unpretentious writing and good narration but has its flaws
Relatable yet Missing a Spark
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