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Saints and misfits

Saints and misfits

YA ContemporaryYoung Adult
Pages
328
Published
2017
Language
English

Synopsis

Janna Yusuf knows a lot of people can t figure out what to make of her an Arab Indian-American hijabi teenager who is a Flannery O Connor obsessed book nerd, aspiring photographer, and sometime graphic novelist is not exactly easy to put into a box. And Janna suddenly finds herself caring what people think. Or at least what a certain boy named Jeremy thinks. Not that she would ever date him Muslim girls don t date. Or they shouldn t date. Or won t? Janna is still working all this out.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

Thought-ProvokingEmotionalReflective
Coming of AgeFish Out of Water

Genres

YA Contemporary Young Adult

About the author

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S. K. Ali

S. K. Ali is a Canadian writer of young adult fiction. Born in South India, she moved to Canada at the age of three, studied creative writing at York University, and has worked as a teacher in Toronto. Her debut novel Saints and Misfits, about a Muslim teenager confronting an assault by a well-regarded member of her mosque community, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. She followed it with Love from A to Z, its seque...

Characters

Janna YusufProtagonist
JeremySupporting
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