I just finished the audiobook of “A place for us” a novel by Fatima Farheen Mirza about the immigrant experience of an Indian-Muslim-American family and the trials and tribulations of holding onto your culture and faith in the US. I don’t understand how 1/
She was given no POV and was simply a sounding board for every other character’s development. What I can’t forgive is that the patriarchy is never challenged: it is internalized by supposedly strong and educated female characters to the extent that they 5/