Saints and Misfits

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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. Theyre in your face so much, you can see them, like how you can see your nose. 2. Misfits, people who don belong. Like me the way I don fit into Dad brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama-Boy-Muhammad. Also, there Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don 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 OConnor stories. Like the monster at my mosque. People think he holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask. Except me.

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