“What I really want readers to understand is that grieving is a process, that there isn’t one right way to do it, and that it doesn’t just stop one day. You’re never done grieving. You just express and deal with [it] in different ways as time passes.”
A Teen Scrabble Champion Is Determined to Find Out What Happened to Her Best Friend in ‘Queen of the Tiles’, the new novel by Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf that will hit shelves on April 19.
We had the chance to ask Alkaf about her new novel, her love of word games, and the inspirations behind this fast-paced mystery.— a book about a teen champion Scrabble player — I’m guessing you never thought it would be released into a world that is currently enthralled with Wordle and other word games. What led you to create a novel set in the world of competitive Scrabble?hit Netflix — and I wrote it for entirely self-indulgent reasons.
Too many people give lip service to the idea that grief isn’t linear without really thinking about how that looks or what that means to someone actually experiencing it. What I really want readers to understand is that grieving is a process, that there isn’t one right way to do it, and that it doesn’t just stop one day. You’re never done grieving. You just express and deal with that grief in different ways as time passes.
In one of your tweets promoting this book, you noted that Najwa is a hijabi who is both good at what she does and not oppressed. Why was it important to you to write a hijabi character who is the heroine of her own story ?
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