House of Yesterday, Deeba Zargarpur
House of Yesterday, Deeba Zargarpur
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House of Yesterday

Author: Deeba Zargarpur

Narrator: Ariana Delawari

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/29/2022


Synopsis

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 grandmother
Bibi jan, has become a mere echo of her former vibrant self. 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 is not just a structure made of plaster and stone. It holds secrets that have Sara 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 them, the realization that as much as she wants to hold on to her old life, nothing will ever be the same.

Told in lush, sweeping prose, this 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by tahaslibrary on November 30, 2022

I read this book well into the AM hours and spent most of that time spontaneously breaking into tears. The main character Sara is a 15 year old girl growing up with her large Uzbek-Afghan family in America. She's got an amazing and loving family so all's well right? HAHAHAHA you thought. This is an i......more

Goodreads review by Fanna on January 18, 2023

inter-generational magic-infused contemporary ya about an afghan-uzbek immigrant family's past. someone started cutting onions next to me while i was reading this. basically, this debut is spooky and sentimental. rtc.......more

Goodreads review by Deeba on July 06, 2022

07.06.2022: E-galleys are officially up on NetGalley and Edelweiss. :) As a note, the e-galleys are uncorrected (and I've already made updates to the text for final), but I'm overall really proud of this spooky little book (it is VERY spooky, perhaps a teensy bit gothic). Now I'm going back to pre......more

Goodreads review by akacya ❦ on November 28, 2022

I received a complimentary review copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my rating. Sara’s life is falling apart. Her parents’ divorce is looming, her Bibi Jan struggles to remember who people are, and a secret that changes everything Sara knows ab......more

Goodreads review by Kristi on August 21, 2022

House of yesterday is a story of a fifteen year old whose parents are going through a divorce and she is losing her grandmother to dementia. But she comes upon her grandmother’s memories from the past and that changes how she sees everything. This was such a beautiful book. I lost my grandmother at......more