Bapsi Sidhwa’s story of a teenage Pakistani girl who travels to the United States to find unexpected freedom from family and tradition offers an insightful, funny and charming look at America from an immigrant’s point of view. Sixteen-year-old Feroza Ginawalla, an impetuous, spirited Parsee girl, is packed off to America to escape the rising tide of fundamentalist influence in Pakistan. Her new relationships and adventures shape her alternately hilarious and terrifying perceptions of America. Feroza’s family in Pakistan, meanwhile, are in delicious turmoil over the possibility that American ways will ruin her. (Description from source)
