anka.trini reviewed Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Review of 'Place for Us' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
It's hard for me to review this book because I didn't enjoy the middle part at all.
Overall, I didn't like the structure of the novel. The pov and the timelines changed too frequently for my taste and I couldn't find out how they were connected, why the scenes were organised the way the were. But the parts that were more or less chronological were good, great even.
Most of the characters left me frustrated but maybe that's just what happens when you read a story about a somewhat dysfunctional family.
Reading this novel I often thought about my own family and my relationship with my sister and my parents. We are neither Muslims nor do we have migrated from another country but I recognised a lot of our behaviours, nonetheless. In the end, I guess Tolstoy was wrong in that all unhappy families are unique in their unhappiness. I …
It's hard for me to review this book because I didn't enjoy the middle part at all.
Overall, I didn't like the structure of the novel. The pov and the timelines changed too frequently for my taste and I couldn't find out how they were connected, why the scenes were organised the way the were. But the parts that were more or less chronological were good, great even.
Most of the characters left me frustrated but maybe that's just what happens when you read a story about a somewhat dysfunctional family.
Reading this novel I often thought about my own family and my relationship with my sister and my parents. We are neither Muslims nor do we have migrated from another country but I recognised a lot of our behaviours, nonetheless. In the end, I guess Tolstoy was wrong in that all unhappy families are unique in their unhappiness. I think that at the core most unhappy families are the same.
