num_pages: 400
description: When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls with rival henna businesses.When Nishat comes out to her parents they say she can be anyone she wantsas long as she isnt herself. Because Muslim girls arent lesbians. Nishat doesnt want to hide who she is but she also doesnt want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.Flvia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses both Flvia and Nishat choose to do henna even though Flvia is appropriating Nishats culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress their lives get more tangledbut Nishat cant quite get rid of her crush on Flvia and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.
language: English
title: The Henna Wars
publisher: Page Street Kids