Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar

Our One Library, One Book has started. The Teen Book Club will be reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin for our November 3rd Book Club, but if you've already read it and are itching for more books about Pakistan, check out Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar.

Fourteen year old Nanzia has always been the perfect daughter. Her parents have worked hard to make a life and dowry for her, and obedience is the least she can give to her mother. When her father gets into an accident at work, her older brother dissapears, and her dowry is stolen, Nanzia remembers the words of the Prophet Muhammad. "All children know that the gates of heaven lie beneath their mother's feet." She drops out of school to become a live in maid with her mother in their town of Karachi, Pakistan. Being a maid, though, is a shameful occupation and Nanzia worries that no one will want her for a daughter-in-law. Losing everything, though, Nanzia finds she has gained a wonderful kind of freedom. What is she willing to sacrifice?

Find Beneath My Mother's Feet shelved under Y QAM.