Saints and Misfits

A William C. Morris Award Finalist n An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 n n Saints and Misfits 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. n n There are three kinds of people in my world: n n 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. n n 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. n n 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. n n But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right? n n 3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O'Connor's stories. n n Like the monster at my mosque. n n People think he's holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask. n n Except me. n