Beneath My Mother's Feet
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2008]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 198 pages ; 22 cm
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
Subjects:
Families -- Pakistan -- Juvenile fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Pakistan -- Fiction.
Families -- Pakistan -- Juvenile fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Pakistan -- Fiction.
Target Audience: Ages 12 up.
ISBN:
9781416947288 (hardcover)
A Junior Library Guild selection