Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O’Connor’s stories. Same planet, different worlds.īut sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?ģ. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don’t go together. 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.Īlso, there’s Jeremy and me. They’re in your face so much, you can’t see them, like how you can’t see your nose.Ģ. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. There are three kinds of people in my world:ġ. 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.
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