Huda F Are You?

This book's awesome punny title caught my attention as I was walking through the stacks at the library where I work a couple of weeks ago.

I'm not in the typical age group for teen reads, but I found this to be a charming and humorous coming-into-herself story. Told with cute illustrations and great storytelling, readers witness Huda's experiences in her Michigan high school as a Hijab-wearing American teen who is dealing with teen issues of identity and figuring out where she fits in and who she wants to be.

This heartwarming story tackles big issues with humour and honesty and a dollop of the author's personal experience. This is a book about identity and captures the uncertainty when teens are trying to figure out who they are when they're unsure of who they are, while also unsure of what everyone else is expecting them to be. It's a confusing and anxiety-inducing time in life and this book is a good reminder to meet these challenges in our lives (and remember others are going through them too) with kindness, empathy and giving out a whole lotta grace. 

This was a funny OwnVoices story with great Muslim representation loosely based on the author's experiences. It is part of a series but can easily be read as a standalone.

My Rating: 4.5 stars

Author: Huda Fahmy

Genre: Graphic Novel, Teen, Contemporary Fiction, Humour, BIPOC author

Type and Source: paperback from public library

Publisher: Dial Books

First Published: Nov 23, 2021

Read: March 15, 2026

Book Description from GoodReads: 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.