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Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

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Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

by Adiba Jaigirdar

Length 9 hours 35 minutes

Language English

Narrators Reena Dutt & Shubhangi Karmakar

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“All of Adiba Jaigirdar's books feel like being wrapped up in a soft blanket. I love how she embraces tropes but uses her queer and BIPOC identities to twist and reinvent them. While this is obviously a fake dating story, it's also opposites attract told in a way that challenges the stereotypes placed upon South Asian women. Hani and Ishu have opposite temperaments, religious views, clothing styles, etc yet everyone around them seems to think they have everything in common. I fell deeply in love with these characters and the way they used their differences (and reluctantly admitted similarities) to support and care for each other.”
— Gina • BookPeople

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About the author

Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan―she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate―Ishita "Ishu" Dey. Ishu is the complete opposite of Hani. She’s an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. But Ishita agrees to help Hani, if Hani will help her become more popular so that she stands a chance of being elected head girl.

Despite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other. But relationships are complicated, and some people will do anything to stop two Bengali girls from achieving happily ever after.

Romance LGBTQIA+ Fiction YA Fiction

Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi and Irish writer and teacher and the author of The Henna Wars, which Kirkus called "impossible to put down." She is also a contributor for Book Riot. She lives in Dublin, Ireland.