- East Indian Americans, Immigrants, Fiction, Fiction, cultural heritage
A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Fatima Farheen Mirza
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Random House, Penguin Random House, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781524763565
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American novelist best known for her novel A Place for Us, which was a New York Times best seller. She was named by the National Book Award Foundation as a "5 Under 35" honoree in 2020.
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