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The Henna Wars

by Adiba Jaigirdar

Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 870L · 400 pages · 2022

Why we'd hand it over

A razor-sharp, genuinely funny coming-of-age story grounded in Irish-Indian identity and family love; Nishat's voice is immediate and the henna-business subplot is a clever metaphor for claiming space.

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