A Place for Us<\/em> is the debut novel of a young author and what a debut it was! I’m looking forward to see where this author goes. This novel is a slow burn family drama, somewhat akin to Little Fires Everywhere<\/em>. The story starts at a wedding, and then goes back in time, showcasing little events that led the family to where they are at today. A Place for Us<\/em> is about a Muslim Indian American family and deals with themes such as belonging, family ties, and cultural identity. I would give it a 3.5\/5. I would recommend reading as much as possible in one or two sittings. It’ll make the biggest impact that way. When I stretched out readings more, I found I started losing the threads of what was happening in the book, since it does jump around timelines often and from different characters’ perspectives.<\/p>\n Our raffle winner this week is Barbara S., who reviewed Linwood Barkley A Noise Downstairs<\/em>. She won a gift card to Patti\u2019s Petals<\/strong>. Prizes are donated by the Bethlehem Area Public Library\u2019s Friends of the Library<\/em>.<\/p>\n Entries in the Book Review Raffle cover a wide range of books \u2013 what a great way to find something new to read! Lauren B. tells us about Fatima Farheen Mirza\u2019s first novel, A Place for Us: A Place for Us is the debut novel of a young author and what a debut it was! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,5045],"tags":[299,5395,1157,5651,298],"class_list":["post-29607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-recommendations","category-summer-reading","tag-adult-summer-reading","tag-book-reviews","tag-prizes","tag-reading","tag-summer-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVu5I-7Hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29608,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions\/29608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Amazon.com:](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/91Evv-9Y2gL.jpg?resize=244%2C377&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\nWe have great prizes left \u2013 so make sure your get your book reviews in to be entered in the raffle. You may enter online<\/a> or in person at any Bethlehem library location or bookmobile stop.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"