REVIEW: Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan

Dear Tashie Bhuiyan,

I picked up your romantic contemporary YA novel, Counting Down with You, after it was nominated for the Goodreads Awards in the Young Adult Fiction category. It didn’t win but I am glad it was nominated because I wouldn’t have found it otherwise.

Karina Ahmed is a sixteen-year-old Bangladeshi-American high school student and her parents are demanding. They expect her to excel in math and become a doctor, to stay away from boys (especially white boys), to not wear anything r...