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Bangladeshi American

Tashie Bhuiyan Wrote Counting Down with You for Young Brown Girls

May 4, 2021 by Fin Lavoie

Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan is on sale on May 4, 2021. Order it here! By Karis Rogerson Tashie Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi American author who grew up in New York City and said that she grew up seeing a dearth of people like her in books, which inspired her to write her own … [Read more...] about Tashie Bhuiyan Wrote Counting Down with You for Young Brown Girls