[1] Mirza has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Guernica, Al Jazeera English and The New York Times.

Novelist Kamila Shamsie reviewed it for The Guardian and called it "gripping in its narrative drama...Mirza gives us a portrait of Kashmir itself.

[5] It is the story of a father who is preparing to reveal his own unsavory past to the now-grown daughter that he sent away to boarding school as a small child.

[6] Mirza and his wife have a son and a daughter and he has said that he limits his book-promotion travels in order to stay home in London and care for them.

He worked for the BBC for ten years, but quit in 2011 to devote himself full-time to writing and raising his children.