Fatima Farheen Mirza
Since Fatima Farheen Mirza’s biggest fan is Sarah Jessica Parker (who acquired Mirza’s debut novel), it’s tempting to compare the author to a modern-day Carrie Bradshaw. But the 27-year-old is a very different sort of writer
Though she was on the premed track at the University of California Riverside, at 18 Mirza tried her hand at fiction, tackling a story about the Muslim diaspora in America that was informed by her own experience as a first-generation daughter in an immigrant family.
Her detour into creative writing eventually became her touching novel, A Place for Us, which she describes as “a love letter to the community” and the first book to come out on Parker’s imprint at Hogarth.
“I hope that in encountering this family, people will see that their concerns are all of our concerns—that this is an American family,” Mirza says.
This story appears in the September 2018 issue of Town & Country. Subscribe Now
