“A Place for Us” is a book that can touch your heart as easily as it can sink its teeth into you. It hurts, it reminds, it hopes for better. It explores a family trying to figure out how their histories, religion, and individual identities can co-exsist, sometimes at devistating costs. The book’s title is borrowed from a line of the musical “West Side Story” (I admit to singing it internally each time I picked it up). Like the Romeo and Juliette re-telling, the roots of “A Place for Us” are grounded in a forbidden love, but this is not…
