5/8/2023 0 Comments Trust no aunty by maria qamar![]() ![]() I would have clung to it day in and day out – and it would have made my tortured teenage years a lot more palatable. ![]() ![]() I wish Maria Qamar's book, Trust No Aunty, existed when I was fourteen, which could have easily screamed from the covers The Desi Girl's Book on How to Avoid Being Shamed About Everything That Makes You YOU. I quickly flipped through the book to get to the bullying section, but felt sorely disappointed that amid advice on standing up and alerting your elders that someone's being mean to you, there was nothing about how to deal with kids who made fun of your kajal streaming down from your eyes and what to do when people made a mock, smelly-face sign about your coconut-oil-slicked hair. My heart skipped a beat when I saw that there was a section on how to deal with bullies – something I contended with on a regular basis then, having an Indian accent and looking less than polished compared to the other popular kids at my private, international school in Malaysia. I excitedly picked it up to read through and see how I, too, could be ridiculously smart, make a million friends at school, and be super popular. At the glorious, gawky age of ten, I came upon a red-cloth covered book at the bookstore titled, The Girls' Book: How to Be the Best at Everything. ![]()
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