Many years ago, I read Suzanne Fisher Staples young adult novel Shabanu, which chronicled the coming-of-age of a young Pakistani teen who was forced into a marriage she did not want or plan for in order to save her family in a delicate bind. I had really liked the novel, and was excited to hear Staples had continued the story. Haveli is a sequel set several years later, in which Shabanu is now a young mother and trying to make her way through life as […]