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Saints and Misfits—a William C. Morris Award finalist and an Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of the Year—is a “timely and authentic” (School Library Journal, starred review) debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life…starring a Muslim teen.
There are three kinds of people in my world:
1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in your face so much, you can’t see them, like how you can’t see your nose.
2. Misfits, people who don’t belong. Like me—the way I don’t fit into Dad’s brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama’s-Boy-Muhammad.
Also, there’s Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don’t go together. Same planet, different worlds.
But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?
3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O’Connor’s stories.
Like the monster at my mosque.
People think he’s holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.
Except me.
Saints and Misfits PB
By S. K. Ali
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There are three kinds of people in my world:
1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in your face so much, you can’t see them, like how you can’t see your nose.
2. Misfits, people who don’t belong. Like me—the way I don’t fit into Dad’s brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama’s-Boy-Muhammad.
Also, there’s Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don’t go together. Same planet, different worlds.
But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?
3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O’Connor’s stories.
Like the monster at my mosque.
People think he’s holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.
Except me.
ISBN
9781481499255
Pages
336 pages
Publisher
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published
Jun 12, 2018
Language
en
Cover type
Paperback
Book details
- Authors
- S. K. Ali
- ISBN
- 9781481499255
- Publisher
- Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Binding
- Paperback
- Published
- Jun 12, 2018
- Publication year
- 2018
- Pages
- 336
- Dimensions
- 8.25 in × 0.8 in × 5.5 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Young Adult FictionGirls & WomenSocial ThemesEmotions & FeelingsReligion & FaithJuvenile FictionJuvenile NonfictionSocial TopicsReligion