Weep not girl is on engrossing account of a mother and daughter. Zulekha and Hamida ,who are not only on the verge of womanhood but also torn between their personal enterprising and embarrassing duty of the dominating culture.
In the pursuit of respect, mzee Hassan ,zulekha’s father gives out his daughter’s hand for marriage to a man old enough to father her . In the later part , Hamida grows and struggles with life just because culture separated her family.
In the spellbinding narrative , the author captures the reader’s mind as she traces the mother and the daughter’s excruciating painful struggles toward a happy life .