00948nam a22001217a 4500020001800000082000800018100001800026245003500044260004500079300002800124520060100152650007300753  a9789696400752  a823  aSidhwa, Bapsi  aAn American BratcBapsi Sidhwa  aLahore, PakistanbILQA Publicationc2016  a340 Pagesb20x13 cmbPB  aFeroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected 16-year-old Pakistani girl, is sent to America by her parents, who are alarmed by the fundamentalism overtaking Pakistan? and their daughter. Hoping that a few months with her uncle, an MIT grad student, will soften the girl's rigid thinking, they get more than they bargained for: Feroza, enthralled by American culture and her new freedom, insists on staying. A bargain is struck, allowing Feroza to attend college with the understanding that she will return home and marry well. As a student in a small western town, Feroza's perceptions of America, he.   aTeenage girlsaPakistani AmericansaPakistani American teenage girls