Kamala Khan, sixteen, Pakistani-American, Jersey City, writing superhero fan fiction about Carol Danvers until she gets powers of her own.
The reason this landed the way it did is that the identity material and the superhero material are the same material. Negotiating what your parents expect, what your mosque expects, and what you want is already the plot before anyone starts punching.
Warm, funny, and much lighter than most of what I read this month.
Read October 2026.