House of Yesterday by Deeba Zargarpur

Taking inspiration from the author's own Afghan-Uzbek heritage, this
contemporary YA debut is a breathtaking journey into the grief that
lingers through generations of immigrant families, and what it means to
confront the ghosts of your past.
Struggling to deal with the pain of her parents' impending divorce, fifteen-yearold Sara is facing a world of unknowns and uncertainties. Unfortunately, the
one person she could always lean on when things got hard, her beloved Bibi
Jan, has become a mere echo of the grandmother she once was. And so Sara
retreats into the family business, hoping a summer working on her mom's
latest home renovation project will provide a distraction from her fracturing
world.
But the house holds more than plaster and stone. It holds secrets that have
her clinging desperately to the memories of her old life. Secrets that only her
Bibi Jan could have untangled. Secrets Sara is powerless to ignore as the
dark truths of her family's history rise in ghostly apparitions - and with it, the
realization that as much as she wants to hold onto her old life, nothing will
ever be the same.
Told in lush, sweeping prose, this story of secrets, summer, and family
sacrifice will chill you to the bone as the house that wraps Sara in warmth of
her past becomes the one thing she cannot escape. . .
Zargarpur has penned a dazzling debut that combines a complex
intergenerational immigrant-family drama, a story of a teen dealing with
sweeping life changes, and a genre-bending ghost story." - Booklist,
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"A suspenseful, artfully written (...)

Deeba Zargarpuris an Afghan-Uzbek American. She credits her love of
literature across various languages to her immigrant parents, whose eerie
tales haunted her well into the night. If given the choice, Deeba would spend
her days getting lost in spooky towns with nothing but a notebook and eye for
adventure to guide her. House of Yesterday is her debut novel.

Square Fish
On Sale: Nov 28/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages
9781250802965 • $15.99 • pb
YA Fic / Family / Multigenerational • Ages 14-18 years