A Place for Us

SJP SARAH JESSICA PARKER PUBLISHING HOUSE DEBUT NOVEL

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO

THE WASHINGTON POST

SIX PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

A NOVEL TAKING 10 YEARS TO CREATE

If you live the way you want, it means disappointing your parents…

The eldest daughter, Hadiya, marries for love against tradition. Her sister Huda didn’t take off her hijab, but she went to work at a school. The only son, Amar—his father’s biggest disappointment. He dropped out of school and left home three years ago. Secrets, betrayal, or maybe simply the desire to live their own life—what could have changed this once tightly knit family? So what keeps them together now… remorse, faith, or love?

If you fall in love—then it means breaking your life…

How do you understand which path is right, if the only road that’s good is the one that leads home?

Fatima Farhin Mirza was born and raised in California. She grew up in a Muslim family and wore a hijab until she was 22. Fatima Farhin Mirza’s father wanted her to become a doctor. But she dropped out of school and enrolled in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop course, which many well-known American authors completed. She began writing her novel “A Place for Us” at the age of 18. It took her nearly 10 years to create the book. A call from Sarah Jessica Parker changed her life. “A Place for Us” became not just the debut novel of a young and very talented writer, but also the first book of a new promising American publishing house.