Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Summary
Suzanne Fisher Staples

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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Summary

A bildungsroman (an autobiographical novel which tells the story of a character who grows from childhood into adulthood), Shabanu, published in 1989, depicts a young girl's coming of age in a desert in Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country. The subtitle, Daughter ofthe Wind, reflects the desert conditions where the people live, which force them to move—like the wind—when the land becomes parched and the toba, or water hole, dries up...

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