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A Place for Us

Written by: Fatima Farheen Mirza
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Deepti Gupta
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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

 Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction United States World Literature
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Critic Reviews

I'm particularly interested in stories of immigrants and I loved Fatima Farheen Mirza's A Place for Us, about an Indian family living in America (Anne Tyler)
Deeply moving... The story comes together gradually, through the perspective of various family members, as it weaves through different points in time. Mirza's writing is poignantly beautiful
I loved every minute of this novel; Mirza's prose and her story squeezed my heart, and I had to take a very long, deep breath upon finishing the book. This is a writer to watch out for
The depth of the storytelling and the beauty of the language makes this debut something to treasure. Highly recommended (John Boyne)
Telling the story via multiple perspectives, the author paints an incredibly textured and compassionate portrait of the characters’ lives. Their love for one another is undeniable, yet their inability to communicate it is devastating. As they collectively and individually struggle with the expectations of their heritage as well as contemporary life, A Place For Us is a timeless, yet also timely, family epic (Aisling O'Leary)
Absolutely gorgeous... Mirza writes with the wisdom, insight and patience you would expect from a mature novelist adding a final masterpiece to her canon, but this is, fortunately, just the start of an extraordinary career... As Marilynne Robinson has done with Protestants and Alice McDermott has done with Catholics Mirza finds in the intensity of a faithful Muslim family a universal language of love and anguish that speaks to us all... among the most poignant things I have ever read... a privilege (Ron Charles)
In polished prose that zeroes in on domestic detail and, at its loveliest, recalls Jhumpa Lahiri, Mirza delivers a portrait of a family straining to hold its center amid rebellions both quiet and explosive
Textured and keenly felt... profound... stuck with me long after I finished the book's final page (Lauren Christiansen)
A modern family saga, it follows the conflict between duty, tradition and temptation... bold in its subject matter and moving (Patricia Nicol)
This powerful, intricate debut is essential reading (NoViolet Bulawayo, Man Booker-shortlisted author of We Need New Names)
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I read the reviews, saw the ratings and watched the interviews of the author which all pulled me inevitably to this wonderful novel. It is a smashing debut novel by this young author. A birlliant presentation where the timelines are craftily scrambleld without sacrificing cogency, keeps the reader glued. A daughter who believes in her faith, another who respects it but craves for independence, a son, a rebele who wants only love and for whom beliefs have a higher place than faith brought up by a very strict father and a well-meaning, silently sympathising mother all are caught in a tangle of love and hate, emotions and faith, memories and guilt. If the parents by their action are responsible for what their children have become, then shouldn't we give the benefit to the parents themselves, in turn, for how they were influenced by their own parents? Where does it begin and where does it end?
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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Let me start of by saying the narration of this audiobook was excellent. The emotions and depth that these two bring without any attempted anglicization of their accents. They truly sound like what Indians abroad and not the caricatures depicted in foreign media.

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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