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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