![]() ![]() There she finds Faisal, and the duo face trickery from the jinn, who offer untold luxuries and attempt to maneuver human children into laboring for the hotel. ![]() When she digs too deep, however, and the earth collapses over Faisal, Nura delves even farther to save him, landing in the realm of the jinn, and at the Sijj Palace, an opulent jinn hotel. Finally forbidden from mining, Nura determines to unearth the legendary and valuable Demon’s Tongue mica stone on her final day. Though her widowed mother dreams of sending her to school, Nura concentrates her wishes on more immediate things, such as the sweets she can buy with her wages. ![]() In fictional Meerabagh, Pakistan, clever, ambitious Nura and her friend Faisal, often teased for his stutter, mine mica scraps, reaching crevices too deep in the earth for adults to access. ![]()
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