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Shaukat
Fozia is Hafsa’s mother and Shaukat’s wife. She’s known throughout the village for her homemade sweets. When Amal is preparing to return to the Khan estate after coming home for Fozia’s older daughter Shabnum’s wedding, Fozia asks Amal for a favor: to speak to Nasreen Baji about her family’s debts, as they can’t afford to pay any more money each month.
Fozia Quotes in Amal Unbound
The Amal Unbound quotes below are all either spoken by Fozia or refer to Fozia. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9 Quotes
“We need his filthy money. Maybe if we all united against him, something could be done. It’s happening more and more these days—people are banding together and overthrowing their landlords. Read about it in the paper all the time.”
“The Khan family would never let that happen here. Remember Hazarabad?” Fozia asked. “The people in that town made a pact. Refused to pay their debts until he stopped with the threats. Forget Munira’s measly acres! He destroyed their entire village. Jawad Sahib sent quite the message!”
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Chapter 35 Quotes
I thought coming home would help me feel better, but now all I could see was my mother’s bare wrists, Fozia’s frightened face, and a baby sister who would never know me. How many lives had this man upended?
Why did no one stop him?
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Fozia Character Timeline in Amal Unbound
The timeline below shows where the character Fozia appears in Amal Unbound. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
...Amma is, and how sad she was after the baby came. Hafsa and her mother Fozia knocks on the door, bearing Fozia’s famous sweets. Fozia snuggles the new baby and remarks...
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Chapter 9
One evening, Fozia and Mariam stop by to see Amma. Though Amma refuses to see them at first,...
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Chapter 11
Someone knocks on the door the next morning, but it’s just Fozia. To Amal’s relief, she doesn’t hear Fozia say anything about what Amal did yesterday to...
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Chapter 35
Fozia knocks on the door as Amal is waiting for Ghulam to pick her up. She...
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Chapter 36
...and Nasreen are trapped in “cages,” though Nasreen’s is luxurious. She offers Nasreen one of Fozia’s sweets, and Nasreen declares it “tastes like home.”
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Chapter 41
...estate before going back inside. Amal is shocked to learn the Khans kill people. Will Fozia and her family be okay? Then, Amal realizes Nabila is behind her. Nabila shushes Amal:...
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