- Fiction, romance, general, Romance, LGBT, Young Adult
When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants—as long as she isn’t herself. Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is, but she also doesn’t want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Flávia is appropriating Nishat’s culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled—but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush on Flávia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.
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- Author
- Adiba Jaigirdar
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Hachette Children's Group, Page Street YA, Page Street Kids
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781444962208
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“I decide to come out to my parents at Sunny Apu's engagement party.”
Adiba Jaigirdar is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling author. She writes across young adult, middle grade, and adult fiction and non-fiction. Her seminal works include ***The Henna Wars***, which was selected as one of Time Magazine’s best YA books of all time, and ***Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating***, which was the winner of the YA Book Prize. She has been featured in Buzzfeed, Autostraddle, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and The Guardian. When not writing, she is probably drinking many cups of tea, playing video games, or expanding her overflowing lipstick collection. **Photo**: ALEKSANDRIA RUDENKO
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