![]() ![]() ![]() When the saint in Janna’s Muslim community reveals himself to be a monster, she is unable to confide in anyone, both out of a sense of shame and the fear that no one will believe her. She finds herself caught on the fringes of her divorced father’s new family on the one hand, and, on the other, unable to crack the tight-knit unit consisting of her mother and older brother. Janna sees herself as a misfit – a hijabi Muslim girl obsessed by turns with Flannery O’Connor and a non-Muslim boy named Jeremy. ![]() Janna has assigned the people in her life to one of three categories: saint, misfit, or monster. Ali delivers a contemporary coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old Arab-Indian-American girl named Janna Yusuf. In Saints and Misfits, the first YA novel from Simon & Schuster’s new Muslim-focused Salaam Reads imprint, Toronto author S.K. ![]()
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