Huda F Are You?
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4.0 • 6 Ratings
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the question everyone has to figure out for themselves: Who are you?
Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl.
Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not the one who knows everything about her religion or the one all the guys like. She's miscellaneous, which makes her feel like no one at all. Until she realizes that it'll take finding out who she isn't to figure out who she is.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fahmy (That Can Be Arranged, for adults) centers Huda F., "just your friendly neighborhood Arab-Muslim hijab-wearing American whatever," in this unconventional fish-out-of-water story. After their parents move Egyptian American Huda and her four sisters to largely Muslim Dearborn, Mich., Huda plans to "hang out with the other hijabis" as a way to make friends. But realizing that "wearing hijab is not a personality trait," she finds that she doesn't necessarily fit in with her new school's communities of hijabi athletes, gamers, and fashionistas. While navigating her habitual people-pleasing ("I fake interest in whatever other people are talking about") and seeking approval and acceptance, she also encounters hostility and prejudicial treatment from students and a teacher, and wonders whether to openly discuss the discrimination or keep quiet and fade into the background. Simple lined cartoon art against ample white space portrays female Muslim characters with an array of skin tones and wearing a variety of hijab styles. In this entertaining, frequently wry fictionalized memoir about an important subject, Fahmy is forthright in her dialogues and depictions. Ages 12–up.
