“What a Desi Girl Wants” by Sabina Khan

"What A Desi Girl Wants" is a "Princess Diaries"-style fish out of water tale about a teen girl finding herself

Stories about teens and young adults learning they're actually royalty are perennially popular. Your friendly correspondents had the Disney classic, “The Princess Diaries" starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, to fulfill our average teen-who’s-actually-a-princess fantasies. Now we have Sabina Khan's new YA, "What A Desi Girl Wants", in which that trope is turned on its head — and includes some queer romance for good measure.