Alma's Loyalty

Sassy Saints: Book 2

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Genres

Family Relationships, Diverse Voices, Cultural Fiction, Middle Eastern, Women's Fiction, Friendship, Sisters, Own Voices, Young Adult, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Abuse, Sex, and Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

Sassy Saints — Book 2

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Publication Date

Oct 31, 2022

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287 pages

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Alma's Loyalty

Sassy Saints: Book 2

Published Copy

Blurb

Alma faces competing loyalties between her new-found sister and her family.

Alma’s perfect family is fractured when her father finds out he has a long-lost daughter from his first marriage. When his overtures are rebuffed, it’s up to Alma to bring her new-found sister, Sabiha, into the family fold.

Now Alma is caught between family loyalties: her feuding parents, the brother she grew up with and the sister she just met, the new friends she made who are conflicted in their loyalties between her and Sabiha. Can Alma maintain the role of the perfect daughter and navigate the competing loyalties in her life?

What people are saying...

"Amra Pajalić writes with such honesty every young adult will empathise with her… While dealing with some ordinary “stuff” Pajalic’s observations are sincere and often hilarious."

- BENDIGO ADVERTISER

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Genres

Family Relationships, Diverse Voices, Cultural Fiction, Middle Eastern, Women's Fiction, Friendship, Sisters, Own Voices, Young Adult, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Abuse, Sex, and Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

Sassy Saints — Book 2

Series Read Order

Reading prior books is not required

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

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Publication Date

Oct 31, 2022

Page Length

287 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture.

Amra Pajalić won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novel The Good Daughter, now re-released as Sabiha's Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022). The anthology she co-edited, Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards and her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her short story collection The Cuckoo's Song (Pishukin Press, 2022) features previously published and prize-winning stories.

She works as a high school teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.