About Everything Here Belongs To You:
“Everything Here Belongs to You succeeds beautifully at telling an intimate and deeply felt story of a troubled connection between two young women, set against a larger narrative of ideological conflict.” –IndieReader (4.8 Starred Review)
Everything Here Belongs To You follows Parul and Mohini through their early lives and coming of age. The two young women grow up under the same roof but live very different lives. Parul was six years old when her desperately poor father brought her from their village to live with the Sens, a middle-class Hindu family. Following common customs, Parul was taken in as a servant, asked to hide her Muslim identity, and trained to do household chores alongside Mrs. Sen. By contrast, Mohini, the Sens’ daughter, who is a few years younger than Parul, has led a life of privilege and education.
As Parul grows older, she becomes increasingly unhappy and resentful with her lot in life. Mohini struggles with their relationship as well, never sure whether to treat Parul as a sister or a servant. When Parul has a passionate, secret affair with Rahim, a radical Muslim, the careful order the Sens have maintained is thrown into chaos. Parul must decide where her loyalties lie when Rahim asks her to betray the Sens and endanger a young American man who is staying with them and to whom Mohini is attracted. Parul’s choice will shock the family and determine everyone’s future.
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Author Bio:
Saborna is a pushcart nominee whose stories and articles have appeared in New York Stories, Quality Women’s Fiction (U.K.), The Four Quarters Magazine, Earthen Lamp Journal and TheWeekendLeader.
Saborna’s debut novel, “The Distance” (Istoria Books, 2013) received wonderful reviews from South Asian Review, The Dawn and Hyphen Magazine. “The Distance” also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly in 2013. Saborna lives in Houston with her husband and twins and teaches at Lone Star College.