This document provides a summary of several chapters from a book. It describes Feroza moving to America to study, having difficulties with her roommate Jo who gets involved with thieves and drugs. Feroza works to support herself and escapes to Denver where she studies hotel management. Her relative Manek marries in Pakistan and returns to America for work.

1. Chapter-11
• Manek asked her to study hotel management for
which dollars can be sent from Pakistan.
• But Feroza said that she wanted to choose
psychology or journalism, for which Pakistan
Govt. will not sanction foreign exchange.
• Boyh of them wrote a long letter explain all these
things to khutlibai, Zareen and Cyrus.
• Khutlibai was against this idea, as she was afraid
of the people she will mix with- drunks, seducers
and drug addicts.

2. Chapter-12
• Manek left Feroza in Boston Public Library to
choose the college she wanted to study.
• They went on to visit some museums there. They
visited the Peabody Museum at Salem. Manek
asked her to move fast but she didn’t listen. He
left her and at 4.30 she heard the sounds of door
shut. The security told her that at 5.00 they will
close the museum.
• Her eyes are filled with tears. The guard informed
the police.

3. • The policeman Ben asked the where abouts of
Feroza. First, she said Gulberg in Lahore and
then said Somerville. They travelled up and
down the narrow streets, but she was not able
to tell or find out the exact place. Atlast she
recognised the Ford and Manek in driver’s
seat. He told the cop that he was only
teaching his niece a lesson.

4. Chapter-13
• Manek got replies from the colleges he had
applied, he thought Boston College would be
best. He would be near to assist and advise
her. With in a couple of days they got a form
from a college in Twin Falls, Idaho, which is in
the heart of Mormon territory. Zareen and
Cyrus agreed to permit Feroza study in
America. The new term started in September.
They left for Idaho in the 3rd week of August.

5. Chapter-14
• Mrs.Emily Simms, the counselor introduced them
to Jo, Feroza’s roommate. Manek spent three
days at a motel near the campus, bought the
books for her, paid her college and board fees,
opened a bank account in her name.
• Feroza was not able to understand Jo. When she
went to mall with Jo, Jo occasionally paid as she
was a slick thief. Jo’s family owned a restaurant in
Boulder, Colorado.

6. • By the time the first term was over Jo took a job
at a nearby restaurant and decided to move into
an off-campus apartment. Feroza wrote a letter
to Manek. He came and spent the Christmas
with the counselor and her family.
• They rented a two-bedroom apartment within
cycling distance of the campus for three hundred
dollars a month. Feroza bought a secondhand
bicycle, and Jo a small thirdhand Corvette.

7. • Feroza knew that Jo had acquired a false ID
that showed her age as twenty-one.
Sometimes Feroza helped Jo in stealing things.
Jo kept the apartment tidy.

8. Chapter-15
• Jo picked up strange young men from stores,
restaurants, movie theaters, construction sites,
and places where she worked with an ease.
Feroza found that these guys were the source of
the wine and beer and the fake ID.
• Another reason for Jo’s move to an apartment
was her delight in cooking. She cooked a lot, ate a
lot, and was generous in sharing.
• In early February, a month after they moved to
the apartment, Jo brought home a cat and named
it Kim. But in just two weeks, she threw him out.

9. • Feroza took the cat, as it was very cold outside.
They had their first serious quarrel the next
afternoon. When Feroza was away at class, Jo
took Kim for a long ride in her Corvette and
dumped it outside the city limits.
• Next morning Kim came home. Jo told her to
keep it out of her sight. Feroza locked the cat
inside her room. Emily Simms helped Feroza to
get a job in the registration office and she started
working the very day to support her cat.

10. • Jo worked hard and found a home for Kim and
Feroza left it there. When Jo and Feroza went
out, Jo flirted with boys but Feroza felt painful
to be among the company of so many young
people. After sometimes she decided to stay
back alone at house. Next time, at Jo’s
insistence, Feroza asked for a glass of wine.
One spring evening Feroza discovered the
boys talking to her. They liked her and
accepted her.

11. • Feroza graduated to two glasses of wine.
• One evening Feroza started smoking. But Jo
told the company that it was against her
religion to smoke. She worships fire. As Feroza
had taken wine, she did not listen to Jo and
smoke. That night she prayed to God to beg
divine forgiveness for desecrating the holy fire
– the symbol Ahura Mazda – with her unclean
mouth.

12. • Jo fell in love with every boy she met and the
affair ended within two weeks. Jo fell in love
with Mike. One day, Jo shouted at the
doorsteps of Mike, “Mike, I love you, Mike –
Pleeeease don’t leave me, Mike.” Feroza
dragged and pushed Jo into the car. It was the
first time Feroza had ever driven a car in
America. Soon she got her American driver’s
license.

13. • After fifteen days Mike came again as if
nothing had happened. Jo fed him with huge
meals, washed his clothes, cleaned his filthy
apartment, lent him her car. She also gave him
money and started working two jobs. Feroza
suspected Mike to be a thief as her golden
chain, onyx bowl and electric clock in the
kitchen disappeared. Though Jo knew that
Mike was taking drugs and he was a thief, she
was not able to give him up.

14. • One day Mike walloped Jo in the parking lot.
Jo called her sister Janine, in Los Angels.
Janine run away with a married man when she
was fourteen. At the moment she was living
with a bookie(bookmaker) producing baby
after baby. She also rang up her other sister,
Sally, who lived in Champion Forest, in
Houston. She had two children.

15. Chapter- 16
• Zareen answers the question why she works with
Bhutto’s wife? “ I like to help disadvantaged
people. I do voluntary work at the Destitute
Women’s and Children’s Home and at two
orphanages. I was on my women’s committees
with Begum Bhutto.” She also says that Bhutto is
her Hero. The champion of the poor, of women,
of the minorities and underpriviliged people.
Exactly after a month Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had been
hanged in the Rawalpindi jail.

16. Chapter- 17
• It is believed that troubles come in threes, the
Parsees believe in fives. The apartment above
theirs had been rented to a family of horses. One
day the plasters broke from the wall and when
they called the landlord , instead of constructing
the damaged places he only attached a tarpaulin
to the four corners of the ceiling. Second
misfortune is Feroza came to know about the
hanging of Bhutto. In the college everyone had a
word with her on that day about Bhutto’s trial.

17. • When Feroza returned home the evening, she
found the TV missing and also her typewriter,
Jo’s stereo system, speakers, and computer
missing. The whole apartment had been
burglarized. Feroza went and informed Jo in
the restaurant she was working. They
complained to the Police and they both stayed
in a Travel Lodge that night. Feroza then came
to know that Jo had met Mike two even after
he beat her. Then she reminded Jo that Mike

18. • was having a key of their apartment given by Jo. So she
thought that Mike must have stolen the things. Jo had
sent message to him about the robbery but he came
after one week. Later Jo and Mike had a quarrel, he
asked for her car but she refused. Next evening he met
Jo in the restaurant and asked for the car. At that time
Jo told that Mike only stole all the things from her
room, he accepted it. After one month he told Jo that
he is getting married. After this Jo informed Feroza that
she is leaving Twin Falls, as even the dogs are more
nasty there. The dog bite was the last problem faced by
them.

19. Chapter- 18
• Manek returned to Pakistan after four years.
Jeroo and Behram with their son Dara(14
years) and his sister Bunny came to Lahore.
Manek explained his experience in America
and called it a paradise. All the members of
the family were in search of a suitable wife for
Manek. Manek chose Aban who was a distant
relative of the Junglewallas.

20. Chapter - 19
• Feroza received letter from Zareen and Khutlibai about
the fun and excitement she was missing. At the same
time she enjoyed her visit with Jo’s family in Boulder,
Colorado. She saw horse race with Jo in Denver, and
both of them won a hundred dollars. Horse-racing in
Pakistan had been banished. Feroza fell in love with
Denver. After a couple of weeks Jo told her father that
she didn’t want to go back to Twin Falls. She wanted to
apply for hotel management, an outstanding course
offered in the University of Denver. Feroza also joined
with her and they applied for admission to the course.

21. • Mr and Mrs.Miller both shared the work in
the restaurant. Jo’s sister Janine flew in from
California for a week and her brother Tom also
came. After some days they got their
acceptence letter from the University. Feroza
felt very happy to join the University of
Denver. They rented a small basement
apartment near the campus. Feroza got a new
friend Shashi from India, who was a year
ahead of Feroza in hotel management.

22. • Shashi introduced her to a new circle of
Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Tibetan, Pakistani,
Indian and White friends. He also gave her his
assignments and term papers he had
completed previous year. Feroza started
working in a bar close to the campus.

23. Chapter - 20
• Manek Junglewalla was married in Karachi. He
returned to America as a married man. He
telephoned Feroza and was able to see a
change in her speech. Manek left Aban in
Karachi. She would join him after a few
months, after he got his doctorate and had
found a job.