Fatima Farheen Mirza

The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belongingAs an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister's footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best?A Place for Us takes us back to the beginning of this family's life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla's own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children--each in their own way--tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home.A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.

Eine Hochzeitsfeier führt die indisch-amerikanische Familie von Laila und Rafik seit Jahren erstmals wieder Da ist Hadia, die kluge älteste Tochter, die keine gemäß der muslimischen Tradition arrangierte Ehe eingeht, sondern aus Liebe heiratet, Huda, die ihrer älteren Schwester in allem nacheifert, - und zur Überraschung aller auch Amar, der sensible, aufrührerische jüngste Sohn, der eines Nachts vor drei Jahren einfach verschwand. "Worauf wir hoffen" erzählt die berührende Geschichte einer Familie zwischen Tradition und Moderne, von den ersten Jahren in den USA bis zur Gegenwart, von Liebe und Verrat, vom Ankommen und Loslassen.