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.