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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.
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2 primary booksSaints and Misfits is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by S. K. Ali and S.K. Ali.
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Wow, this captivated me. Completely captured me. It wasn't perfect but I'm giving it 5 stars because it's the first book in a long time that completely pulled me into the story. This was quite a coming of age novel, touched on issues of race and prejudice, sexual assault, crushes, and friendship.
Not all of the characters were well developed (who even is Jeremy? I don't really know him after this book still) but the characters of her Muslim community were well done and the picture was painted really well. I loved this.