![]() ![]() They immediately whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh, where she is thrown headfirst into a world of arranged marriages and tradition. ![]() Her parents are devastated being gay may as well be a death sentence in the Bengali community. ![]() Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life in Seattle and her new life at Caltech, where she can pursue her dream of becoming an engineer.īut when her parents catch her kissing her girlfriend Ariana, all of Rukhsana’s plans fall apart. She rolls her eyes instead of screaming when they blatantly favor her brother and she dresses conservatively at home, saving her crop tops and makeup for parties her parents don’t know about. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. Stay tuned for more next year! The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan (January 29th) I cannot emphasize enough that this list is nonexhaustive, as it only features books whose covers are already public and which I know to have queer protags of color. ![]()
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