<i>Saints and Misfits</i> is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day <i>My So-Called Life</i>…starring a Muslim teen.<br><br>There are three kinds of people in my world:<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen right?<br><br>3. Monsters. Well monsters wearing saint masks like in Flannery O'Connor's stories.<br><br>Like the monster at my mosque.<br><br>People think he's holy untouchable but nobody has seen under the mask.<br><br>Except me.
