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Nazias good heart and spirit balance her many complaints all legitimate about the unfairness of her circumstances. Nazia s good heart and spirit balance her many complaints all legitimate about the unfairness of her circumstances. Set in pakistan, beneath my mother s feet is the novel of the everdutiful daughter, nazia, as her family s troubles push her towards making a difficult, lifechanging decision. If you wish to read the ebook on a kindle, please go back to the ebook news item and click on the link to purchase the mobi file. When her father is injured on the job, nazias world is thrown into chaos when she must quit school to help her mother clean houses in order to earn a living for her family. She lives in karachi and keeps busy attending school, helping with her younger siblings and preparing. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
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