Sarah Jessica Parker's editorial debut: Story of an Indian-Muslim family settled in America

Actor Sarah Jessica Parker’s debut as the editorial director of SJP for Hogarth is a novel written by an Indian Muslim family residing in California, and will be published in 2019, reported Vogue.

Parker, who is an acclaimed actress, shoe designer, producer and recently, a literary enthusiast, has her own line of books within the Hogarth imprint of Penguin Random House’s Crown Publishing Group. And her debut will be Fatima Farheen Mirza’s novel, A Place for Us.



The book will follow the family on the eve of their eldest daughter’s wedding, is the brainchild of Mirza, 26, who is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She is also a former teacher of creative writing and fiction and the University of Iowa and at the Iowa Young Writer’s Studio.

She claims she began writing the novel when she was in college, and it was an eight-years-progress. “I could not be happier with the home it has found,” Mirza said in a press release about her novel being taken up by Parker.

“Speaking with Sarah Jessica Parker and Lindsay Sagnette, and seeing the care and enthusiasm they bring to their books has been deeply comforting. I’m confident in their vision for the novel and grateful that it will be brought into the world by SJP for Hogarth.”

Parker, in her latest role as a publisher, said she was “taken hostage by Fatima Mirza’s heartrending and timely story” and praised the author's ability to inform her reader “what it means to reconcile one’s love of family and culture with a desire to find one’s own path, and one’s own faith".



"Mirza painstakingly details the life of an Indian Muslim family in America and their children’s search to feel whole, fulfilled, and content," said Parker. "She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading. I guarantee you will be different when you close the book.”