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Wanting Mor by Khan, Rukhsana, 1962- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wanting Mor about?

Jameela lives with her mother and father in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that there is no school in their poor, war-torn village, and though Jameela lives with a birth defect that has left her with a cleft lip, she feels relatively secure, sustained by her unwavering faith and the strength of her beloved mother, Mor. But when Mor suddenly dies, Jameela's father impulsively decides to seek a new life in Kabul. Jameela, a devout Muslim, is appalled as her father succumbs to drink and drugs and then suddenly remarries, a situation that turns Jameela into a virtual slave to her demanding stepmother. When the stepmother discovers that Jameela is trying to learn to read, she urges her father to abandon the child in Kabul's busy marketplace. Throughout it all, it is the memory of Mor that anchors her and in the end gives Jameela the strength to face her father and stepmother when fate brings them into her life again.

Who reads Wanting Mor?

Author

Khan, Rukhsana, 1962-

Publisher

Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781554980529

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.87 / 5 (742 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14