SuitabookDaughter of the wind
Suzanne Fisher Staples
- Reading
- Read at a pace that leaves room to pause after major changes in Shabanu’s circumstances; invite her to distinguish what characters want from what they feel obliged to do.
- Themes
- Freedom and obligation: Shabanu faces a choice between her dreams of freedom and obligations to her family and culture. The story centres on the pressures shaping Shabanu’s choice between freedom and obligation.
- Worth knowing
- A tragedy affects Shabanu’s choices, alongside the pressures of betrothal and marriage at a young age.