Jaigirdar was in the middle of working on another book before she turned her attention to the Young Adult genre, particularly the rom-coms. She was also a part of a family where it was encouraged to be a storyteller, a writer and to read books. When she and her family moved to Dublin, Ireland Jaigirdar found the city to be more diverse and made friends with people from different cultures. “I was already feeling out of place, and feeling the adrenaline of being something shiny and new and seeing that wear off as a 10-year-old was difficult.” Read Related: “The first time I went to school, everybody had so many questions for me and huddled around me to ask about Bangladesh.” The novelty wore off after about a week. At the age of 10, she and her immediate family moved to Tullamore, Ireland where there weren’t too many Brown people. Growing up, Jaigirdar would alternate between living in Saudi Arabia for six months and Bangladesh for six months. Apparently, she would go tell every member of my large family that ‘my granddaughter has an entire cabinet of books. “I used to live with my grandmother in Bangladesh and I had an entire cabinet of books. A post shared by Adiba Jaigirdar on at 6:01am PDT
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