In A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi, Mimi's reconciliation with her father's abandonment is resolved near the end of the book through a series of coincidences. Mimi, an American girl, travels to Pakistan with her mother to spend the summer with her wealthy grandparents, whom she has never met before. Mimi secretly wants to find her father, who left when she was five, and plans to write to him in a journal. However, her mother's refusal to talk about him drives them apart
