The first publication from Sarah Jessica Parker's Hogarth imprint, }A Place For Us{ tells the story of an Indian Muslim family preparing for the eldest daughter's marriage, which is set to mark the culmination one way or another of a variety of issues and conflicts between them Fatima Farheen Mirza was born in California in 1991 and raised there. Her parents are of Indian descent; her mother grew up in Birmingham, her father in Hyderabad. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. A PLACE FOR US is her first novel.