Saints and Misfits

Saints and Misfits

<b>An <i>Entertainment Weekly </i>Best YA Book of 2017<br />A <i>Kirkus</i> Top 10 Contemporary Teen Novel of 2017<br />A 2018 William C. Morris Award Finalist </b> <i><br />Saints and Misfits</i> is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day <i>My So-Called Life</i>...starring a Muslim teen.<br /><br />There are three kinds of people in my world:<br /> <br />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.<br /> <br />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.<br /> <br />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.<br /> <br />But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?<br /> <br />3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O'Connor's stories.<br /> <br />Like the monster at my mosque.<br /> <br />People think he's holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.<br /> <br />Except me.