Get to Know Asian American Children’s Authors: Aisha Saeed, Author of Written in the Stars
1) Which of your characters do you most identify with and why? I feel I identify the most with my main character Naila. In Written in the Stars you see that her parents do love her a great deal and she loves them too, but that they are stricter than the traditional American parents are. She can’t date, she can’t go to prom, she can’t even go to events where boys might be. This was very similar to my own upbringing. While the rest of the story departs from my own personal jour