Jameel and the house of djinn
By: Suzanne Fisher Staples.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374399368
Subjects: Family life -- Pakistan -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Spirits -- Fiction; Pakistan -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel, both aged fifteen, to the forefront of an attempt to modernize Pakistan, but the teens must both sacrifice their own dreams if they are to meet family and tribal expectations.
Notes: "Frances Foster books."