{"title":"S.K. Ali (A)","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"saints-and-misfits","title":"Saints and Misfits #1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaints and Misfits\u003c\/i\u003e—a William C. Morris Award finalist and an \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest YA Book of the Year—is a “timely and authentic” (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) debut novel that feels like a modern day \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy So-Called Life\u003c\/i\u003e…starring a Muslim teen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere are three kinds of people in my world:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O’Connor’s stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike the monster at my mosque.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeople think he’s holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcept me.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39339369070658,"sku":"","price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/9781481499255.jpg?v=1621668304"}],"url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/collections\/s-k-ali-a.oembed","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}