Comments on: A Place for Us: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/a-place-for-us-a-novel/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:17:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/a-place-for-us-a-novel/#comment-287234 Fri, 06 Jul 2018 21:01:59 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10903#comment-287234 In reply to susan.

I agree about the father-son relationship, but I feel as if without the father’s viewpoint at the end there was no way to understand how and why the family was fractured the way it was. And even then, I still don’t get why Amar had to do what he did. Beautiful writing but the elements didn’t quite add up for me.

]]> By: susan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/07/a-place-for-us-a-novel/#comment-287233 Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:15:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10903#comment-287233 I too was a bit unsatisfied just reading the father’s point of view for the last 80 pages of this novel. I sort of felt he blew it with his son (& was too late in making amends!) and I was unsettled by the strictness of their family etc. Still I felt like it was an accurate story of a family’s tragic split. They needed more communication & understanding! But I could see where the gap between cultures was hard at times to bridge. Worth reading, but a bit of a slow burn too.

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