Queen of the Tiles

They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen's Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when sixteen-year-old Najwa is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend, the former unbeatable queen of the tiles Trina Low, one year after her unexplainable death when Trina's Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages to Najwa.

Hanna Alkaf is the author of The Weight of Our Sky, Queen of the Tiles, The Girl and the Ghost, Hamra and the Jungle of Memories, and The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s, as well as coeditor of the young adult anthology The Grimoire of Grave Fates. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and has spent most of her life working with words, both in fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her family.