Four Eids and a Funeral

Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi-Irish writer born in Dhaka who moved between Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh as a child before her family immigrated to Tullamore, Ireland, when she was ten; she has lived in the Dublin area since. She holds a BA in English and history from University College Dublin and an MA in postcolonial studies from the University of Kent, and is queer and Muslim. Her debut, The Henna Wars, follows a Bangladeshi teenager coming out as a lesbian in Dublin and was named to Time's...

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is a British novelist from Croydon in South London who studied English, Chinese, and anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London. Her debut, the young-adult thriller Ace of Spades (2021), reached the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. She followed it with Where Sleeping Girls Lie and, with co-author Adiba Jaigirdar, the romantic comedy Four Eids and...