{"id":12109,"date":"2021-05-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12109"},"modified":"2021-05-25T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:12:18","slug":"misfit-in-love-all-by-herself-by-s-k-ali-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12109","title":{"rendered":"MISFIT IN LOVE all by herself? by S. K. Ali (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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She’s ready for yes,
he’s already moved on –
great summer now not-so-great\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her brother Muhammad’s nikah wedding celebration<\/a> will be the perfect time for Janna to tell Nuah that his year away at college confirmed she’s finally ready to be together, but there’s hardly a quiet moment as the small Muslim ceremony has become a 300-guest extravaganza at her Indian-American dad’s fancy Illinois lakeside estate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between her young half-brothers’ ice cream truck obsession, wondering who her best friend’s date is, and Sarah’s attempts to rein in her fiance’s over-the-top additions to the party, hijabi Janna’s stress levels are rising as family connections and conflicts swirl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah’s cousin Haytham is a so-charming singing poet, family friend Layth is a brooding young man, and Janna’s long-divorced Egyptian-American mom is suspiciously happy to see a handsome college classmate and his teenage daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has dad always been such an anti-Black racist<\/a>?
Is mom’s happiness on hold till Janna leaves for college?
How can everyone have a happily ever after except her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story begun in Saints and Misfits<\/em> (recommended here<\/a>) continues as Janna tries to envision a future much different than her dreams. By the author of Love From A to Z<\/em> (recommended here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy book birthday to Misfit in Love!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to you know when it’s time to let go of a dream?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Info:<\/strong> Misfit in Love: a Saints and Misfits Novel \/ S.K. Ali. Salaam Reads – S&S, 2021. (author site<\/a>) (publisher site<\/a>) Review copy & cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She’s ready for yes,he’s already moved on –great summer now not-so-great\u2026 Her brother Muhammad’s nikah wedding celebration will be the perfect time for Janna to tell Nuah that his year away at college confirmed she’s finally ready to be together, but there’s hardly a quiet moment as the small Muslim ceremony has become a 300-guest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[22,7,75,11,5,192,16,87,371,18,40,44,185,302,39,184,86,193,205,15,206,21,57,268,73,35,372,8],"class_list":["post-12109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-creativity","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-egyptian-american","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-indian-american","tag-love","tag-mothers","tag-music","tag-prejudice","tag-race","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-stepfamily","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-syrian-american","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}