Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Place for Us | 2018 | Fatima Farheen Mirza | Buy |
Fatima Farheen Mirza’s standalone novels begin with her debut, A Place for Us (2018). The novel follows an Indian-Muslim family across decades in Northern California, tracing the bonds and distances between parents and children as they each try to reconcile personal desires with cultural expectations.
A Place for Us became a bestseller and received praise from critics and readers for its emotional honesty and detailed portrayal of family dynamics. Mirza, who studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, brings a quiet precision to her prose, building the novel through multiple perspectives that gradually reveal the full picture of the family’s life.