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JameelaGreen only has one wish.
To see her memoir ontheNew York Timesbestseller list. When her dream doesn’t come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque. New imam and recent immigrantIbrahimSultan is appalled by Jameela’sshallowness, but agrees to assist her on one condition: that she perform a good deed.
Jameelareluctantly accepts his terms, kicking off a chain of absurd and unfortunate events.When the person the two do-gooderstry to help is recruited by a terrorist group called D.I.C.K.—Dominion of the Islamic Caliphate and Kingdoms—the federal authorities become suspicious ofIbrahim, and soon after, the imam mysteriously disappears.
Certain that theCIAhave capturedIbrahimfor interrogation via torture,Jameeladecides to set off on a one-woman operation to rescue him. Her quixotic quest soon finds her entangled in an international plan targeting theegomaniacalleader of the terroristorganization—ascheme that putsJameela, and countless others, including her hapless husband and clever but disapproving daughter, at risk.
For fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and My Sister, the Serial Killer, Jameela Green Ruins Everything is awhip-smartblack comedy about the price of success,and a biting look at what has gone wrong with American foreign policy in the Middle East. Itis a compulsively engaging, yet unexpectedly touching novelabout one woman's search for meaning and connection, and about the lengths we go for those we love.
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Zarqa Nawaz
ZARQA NAWAZ is a writer and filmmaker who createdLittle Mosque on the Prairie. Premiering on the CBC in 2007, it ran for six seasons, was watched in over sixty countries, and landed Nawaz in the public eye. When not writing, producing or directing for the show, she has spent much of the past six years writing comedy pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX, and touring the world as a sought-after public speaker. She has been interviewed or profiled by CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, and Aljazeera. Her memoir, Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, was published in 2014. A contributor to CBC’s DNTO, Zarqa Nawaz lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with her loving but long-suffering family.
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