Saints and Misfits Playlist
To celebrate the publication of the first Young Adult novel under our diversity imprint, Salaam Reads, author S.K. Ali has provided us with a little playlist to listen to while you read, Saints and Misfits, out today!
SYNOPSIS:
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.
PLAYLIST:
Walking Contridiction by Greenday
La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf
Raindrops by Regina Spektor
Quiet by MILCK