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Jameela Green ruins everything / Zarqa Nawaz.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.N423 J36 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nawaz, Zarqa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imams (Shiites)--United States--Fiction.
- Imams (Shiites).
- Muslims--United States--Fiction.
- Muslims.
- Women authors--Fiction.
- Women authors.
- Muslim authors--Fiction.
- Muslim authors.
- Muslim women--United States--Fiction.
- Muslim women.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Central Illustration Agency--Fiction.
- Central Illustration Agency.
- United States--Foreign relations--Middle East--Fiction.
- United States.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Simon & Schuster Canada edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.
- Summary:
- "Jameela Green only has one wish. To see her memoir on The New York Times bestseller list. When her dream doesn't come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque. New imam and recent immigrant Ibrahim Sultan is appalled by Jameela's shallowness, but agrees to assist her on one condition: that she perform a good deed. Jameela reluctantly accepts his terms, kicking off a chain of absurd and unfortunate events. The homeless man they try and help gets recruited by a terrorist group, causing federal authorities to become suspicious of Ibrahim, and suddenly the imam mysteriously disappears. Certain that the CIA have captured Ibrahim for interrogation via torture, Jameela decides to set off on a one-woman operation to rescue him. Her quixotic quest soon finds her entangled in an international plan targeting the egomaniacal leader of the terrorist organization--a scheme that puts Jameela, and countless others, including her hapless husband and clever but disapproving daughter, at risk. A hilarious black comedy about the price of success, and a biting look at what has gone wrong with American foreign policy in the Middle East, Jameela Green Ruins Everything is a compulsively readable, yet unexpectedly touching story of one woman's search for meaning and connection."-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nawaz, Zarqa. Jameela Green ruins everything.
- ISBN:
- 9780358621232
- 0358621232
- 9781982177379
- 1982177373
- OCLC:
- 1291403498
- Publisher Number:
- 99991070155
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