Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable 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.
