A review by nadjatiktinsky
A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi

Mimi is less than enthusiastic about spending her summer in Karachi, Pakistan, living with wealthy grandparents she's never met. Pakistan is different from America - boiling hot, with too-spicy food and confusing rules about how to treat servants versus the upper class. But when she befriends Sakina, the daughter of her grandparents' cook, things start to get interesting. Sakina needs to learn better English to pass school entrance exams, and Mimi needs to track down her estranged father to convince him to come back and put her life back to normal. This is a fun adventure story with a hint of mystery and an emotional undercurrent.