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Heart Without a Home
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|March 19, 2025
Alina Gufran discusses her debut novel No Place to Call My Own, and the complex travails of its protagonist, Sophia
The notion of 'coming of age' is one that has for long been a monopoly for Western popular media, its origin lying in the bildungsroman novel. Naturally, when one thinks about the genre, it is often through an imposed lens of first-world whiteness. Alina Gufran's debut novel, No Place to Call My Own, is the latest entry in a growing genre of Indian coming-of-age novels that do not stoop to frivolity. With Sophia as the protagonist, Gufran, who was recently in Bengaluru to launch the book, charts the growth of an Indian Muslim woman in the context of the undeniable friction that she has to negotiate with in terms of gender and religion.
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