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Saints and Misfits
S. K. Ali
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2017-06-13
主題
Young Adult Fiction / Girls & Women
Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Religion & Faith
Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / General
ISBN
1481499262
9781481499262
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8ysvDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Saints and Misfits
—a William C. Morris Award finalist and an
Entertainment Weekly
Best YA Book of the Year—is a “timely and authentic” (
School Library Journal
, starred review) 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.
Except me.