Saints and Misfits

By S. K. Ali

Format:Hardcover

An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017A Kirkus Top 10 Contemporary Teen Novel of 2017A 2018 William C. Morris Award FinalistSaints and Misfits is an unforgettable 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.

Literary & Contemporary Fiction
336 pagesHardcover
First published 2017-06-13

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