About the Book

An intimate, arresting portrait of millennial angst in a mercurial, volatile world.
Feeling trapped in a society that’s quick to undermine her—constantly making assumptions about her religion, sexuality, ambition, worth—Sophia plunges headlong into a journey of questionable decisions through her twenties. We follow her through cities and towns as she tries to make sense of the old while confronting the new. But each move trails chaos in its wake.
Restless and acerbic, she struggles to come to terms with the disintegration of her parents’ marriage, eerily mirrored in the political turmoil of twenty-first-century India. And crucial to Sophia’s story—which unfolds against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement, the 2020 Delhi riots and a global pandemic—is her complex, thorny friendship with Medha, a queer artist with travails of her own.
How does one even begin to fit in when apathy becomes a mode of survival? How is it possible to truly belong when one feels estranged from oneself? Sophia’s journey is not just her own but that of any young woman who finds herself caught ‘in between’—unable to back down and refusing to conform—and who doesn’t quite feel rooted to one place or identity.
No Place to Call My Own is an intimate, arresting portrait of millennial disquiet in a mercurial, volatile world.

About the Author

Alina Gufran is a writer and filmmaker whose fiction found its form during her time in India, Europe and the Gulf. No Place to Call My Own is her debut novel.