Saints and Misfits
Books | Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / General
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S. K. Ali
A William C. Morris Award Finalist An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 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.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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Author
S. K. Ali
Pages
328
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2017-06-13
ISBN
1481499246 9781481499248
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"Awesome book "
Sameer Rajakumar
"I'm not new to Muslim YA books. My kids have read their fair share from 5th grade on up. I felt like this was more of an education on Muslim religion itself in some chapters and not really about the young girls story. One could say they are one and the same. But not necessarily. There are conflicts that are not well explained. Especially, why the father dislikes the hijab and why she even chose to where it in the first place. Because it is made clear it is a choice. I have other thoughts that I will chose to keep to myself, but special thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review."
Tanya Grayson Andoniadis
"This was a sweet book in a lot of ways. I think it relied on misunderstandings to move the plot forward a little too much in the first half, but I really enjoyed watching the main character grow and find herself."
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"I do think this is a good book. It shows fear and community in a way that should definitely be represented. However I will say it feels like the author just gets bored near the end- so the book is 95% good, then the last 5% is rushed and unsatisfying.
The ideals the author slowly forms and works towards through the whole book are hastily set aside in favor for.. about half a page of actual resolution outside of the own characters’ mind.
I just wish there was more consequence and more to the end. Or at least, if it was to stay as is, there’d be more detail.
For the other 95%, I was enthralled, terrified, and very captured within the story. I just wish I could see it come to a clearer conclusion."
Dysania
"I'm not new to Muslim YA books. My kids have read their fair share from 5th grade on up. I felt like this was more of an education on Muslim religion itself in some chapters and not really about the young girls story. One could say they are one and the same. But not necessarily. There are conflicts that are not well explained. Especially, why the father dislikes the hijab and why she even chose to where it in the first place. Because it is made clear it is a choice. I have other thoughts that I will chose to keep to myself, but special thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review."
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Tanya Andoniadis