A review by caitlinsgarden
A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi

5.0

An absolutely stunning middle grade novel about Mimi, a Pakistani American girl and Sakina, a Pakistani girl. It's a hard-hitting powerful story about female friendship, which I adored about it. Mimi comes to visit some family in Pakistan and there she meets the young girl who's a servant for the family - Sakina. Mimi wants to find her father whom she hasn't seen in ages and Sakina wants to learn to speak English better so she can go to school. It also deals with things like extreme poverty, class differences, and complicated family dynamics. As always, I was so impressed by how well it blended the painful topics with so much hope. It's SO beautiful and I highly recommend it.