{"id":6751,"date":"2020-05-16T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2021-05-29T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T16:06:49","slug":"blog-tour-the-henna-wars-by-adiba-jaigirdar-interview-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-henna-wars-by-adiba-jaigirdar-interview-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (Interview + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/tour-schedule-henna-wars-by-adiba.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (Interview + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the <i>The Henna Wars <\/i>blog tour!! I am so excited to be a part of this tour, and I\u2019m even more excited for you to discover what Adiba would do if she spent the day with <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nishat and Fl\u00e1via<\/span>! Read on to find out more about the book and author, plus follow the rest of the tour and enter to win a print copy of <em>The Henna Wars<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (Interview + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (Interview + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>The Henna Wars<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/adiba-jaigirdar\/\">Adiba Jaigirdar<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  May 12, 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/page-street-kids\/\">Page Street Kids<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 400 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/48494988-the-henna-wars\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants\u2014as long as she isn\u2019t herself. Because Muslim girls aren\u2019t lesbians. Nishat doesn\u2019t want to hide who she is, but she also doesn\u2019t want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.<\/p>\n<p>Fl\u00e1via is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Fl\u00e1via and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Fl\u00e1via is appropriating Nishat\u2019s culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled\u2014but Nishat can\u2019t quite get rid of her crush on Fl\u00e1via, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2020-05-16T10:00:29+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the The Henna Wars blog tour!! 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What about a week? A month, year, or forever?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a day, I would trade lives with Lara Jean from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To All The Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mostly so I could use her baking skills to bake some really great cookies. For a week, I would love to be Rosa from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t Date Rosa Santos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because the town of Port Coral and the community there seems so lovely. For a month, I would love to trade lives with Leila from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Light At The Bottom Of The World<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because I could hang out in a world underwater and race submarines. For a year, I would love to be the MC from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summer Of Salt<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because she has some pretty cool magical powers. The island that she grew up in also sounds so adorable and idyllic, and it has some really weird and wonderful traditions that I would love to see. Forever\u2026I think that\u2019s way too big a commitment. I\u2019ll just stay myself, haha!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What would you do if you spent the day with <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nishat and Fl\u00e1via<\/span>? Where would you go to eat, hang out, relax, etc.?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I could spend a day with Nishat and Fl\u00e1via, I think we would just have a really chill day in Dublin. They had a kind of stressful time in the book, so they can relax. We can go to the beach, have some Teddy\u2019s ice-cream, and go for a hike in Bray (which is a seaside town near Dublin).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nishat and Fl\u00e1via<\/span> were to hang out with characters from other YA books, who would they be and why?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think Nishat would hang out with Zayneb from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love From A To Z<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I think they have a lot in common, and they would have great conversations together about race and religion. Fl\u00e1via would hang out with Rishi. They both have a love of art so they would get on well, I think!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What was your favorite bit of research you ended up not using?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did some research into different henna cultures around the world, and discovered a lot about the history of henna and also henna patterns in different cultures. Since <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Henna Wars<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is mainly focused on Bengali culture, I couldn\u2019t really include a lot about how different cultures have different henna patterns that they base a lot of their designs off of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How do you feel about LGBTQIA+ rep in your work and how important is it to you to write diverse characters and storylines?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I was writing LGBTQIAP+ rep in the book, I really just wanted to write as honestly as I could about queerness as I have experienced it, or as I have watched my friends experience it, along with the kind of queerphobia that we experience in the world. I also wanted to be in a conversation with the kind of queer stories that we already see in the media. For example, because there are still so few queer stories, many of them focus on coming out. I wanted <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Henna Wars<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to play with that\u2014to both be a coming out story and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> be a coming out story, because to me coming out is something that we have to do over and over again anyway. So it\u2019s unfortunately not a one and done thing. At the same time, queer stories are about so much more than coming out! I also really wanted to give weight to what it means to make the choice to come out, even if it doesn\u2019t give you a positive result, and what it means to be outed against your will. Coming out and being outed are two things that a lot of queer people experience, and I hope that I was able to portray both of these things in honest ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t ever write a story with the intention to write diversely, I only really want to write stories that feel true to me, and resonate with me. Because I am Bengali, and queer, and Muslim, many of the experiences of characters like Nishat and Fl\u00e1via are part and parcel of my life. I have also been very fortunate to grow up with a very diverse group of friends, and to know people with very diverse experiences in life. Because of this, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s important for me to write diversely, but it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> important for me to write in a way that honours the diversity of the characters and stories that I\u2019m writing. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Can you share some things that we might not know about your characters?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Fl\u00e1via isn\u2019t immersed in her art, she loves baking! She loves making Brazilian desserts, like brigadeiro, but also other sweets like cupcakes and cookies. She\u2019s also a pretty good singer!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nishat loves reading, and her favourite series is the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chaos Walking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> trilogy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-bookstagram.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2024\" height=\"2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-bookstagram.png 2024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-bookstagram-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-bookstagram-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-bookstagram-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-bookstagram-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/the-henna-wars-bookstagram-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2024px) 100vw, 2024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6914 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/adiba-jaigirdar-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/adiba-jaigirdar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/adiba-jaigirdar.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi\/Irish writer and teacher. She lives in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent, England and a BA in English and History from UCD, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>She is a contributor for Bookriot. Previously, she has published short fiction and poetry in various journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>All her work is aided by copious amounts of (kettle-made) tea and a whole lot of Hayley Kiyoko and Janelle Mon\u00e1e.<\/p>\n<p>She is represented by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.triadaus.com\/contact.html\">Uwe Stender<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.triadaus.com\/\">TriadaUS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adibajaigirdar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WEBSITE (opens in a new tab)\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/17552525.Adiba_Jaigirdar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GOODREADS (opens in a new tab)\">Goodreads<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adiba_j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TWITTER (opens in a new tab)\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dibs_j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"INSTAGRAM (opens in a new tab)\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/tour-schedule-henna-wars-by-adiba.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5452 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86499\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enter here to win a print copy of <em>The Henna Wars<\/em> by Adiba Jaigirdar!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(US Only!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Are you as excited as I am to read this book?!? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the The Henna Wars blog tour!! I am so excited to be a part of this tour, and I\u2019m even more excited for you to discover what Adiba would do if she spent the day with Nishat and Fl\u00e1via! Read on to find out more about the book and author, plus follow the rest of the tour and enter to win a print copy of The Henna Wars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[484,1597,27,734],"tags":[1846,537,489,1414,488,737,462,1795,1845],"reading-challenges":[],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-tours","category-bookstagram","category-giveaways","category-interviews","tag-adiba-jaigirdar","tag-blog-tour","tag-book-tour","tag-bookstagram","tag-ffbc","tag-interview","tag-kait-plus-books","tag-may-2020","tag-the-henna-wars","book-author-adiba-jaigirdar","book-publisher-page-street-kids","book-genre-contemporary","book-genre-queer","book-genre-romance","book-genre-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Henna-Wars-Featured-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"reading-challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-challenges?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}