Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Place for Us | 2018 | Buy |
Fatima Farheen Mirza is an American novelist born in California in 1991 to parents of Indian descent. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. Her debut novel, A Place for Us (2018), was the first book published under Sarah Jessica Parker’s SJP for Hogarth imprint.
A Place for Us tells the story of Rafiq and Layla, an Indian-Muslim couple raising three children in Northern California. The novel opens at the wedding of their eldest daughter, Hadia, and moves backward and forward in time to trace how the family arrived at this moment. At the center of the story is Amar, the youngest child, whose struggles with identity and belonging create fractures within the family. The book received wide praise for its intimate portrayal of family life, faith, and the immigrant experience in America.