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SAINTS AND MISFITS
By: S.K. Ali
Salaam Reads
June 2017
On Sale: June 13, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 1481499246
EAN: 9781481499248
Kindle: B01LZDCDZD
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult
Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Lifeโฆstarring 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. Theyโre in your face so much, you canโt see them, like how you canโt see your nose. 2. Misfits, people who donโt belong. Like meโthe way I donโt fit into Dadโs brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mamaโs-Boy- Muhammad. Also, thereโs Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we donโt 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 OโConnorโs stories. Like the monster at my mosque. People think heโs holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask. Except me.
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