Jameela Green Ruins Everything

Jameela Green is a writer who wants to see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. She makes a deal with God to perform a good deed, but things go wrong when the homeless man they try to help gets recruited by a terrorist group. Jameela sets off on a one-woman operation to rescue him, becoming the center of an international plan targeting the leader of the terrorist organization.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Jameela Green has only one wish: to see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. When that doesn't work out, she decides that her best next step is to make a deal with God, so she heads over to her local mosque. The idealistic new imam, 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 series of unfortunate events. The homeless man they try to help gets recruited by a terrorist group, causing federal authorities to become suspicious of Ibrahim. When the imam mysteriously disappears, Jameela is certain that the CIA has captured her new friend for interrogation and possibly torture.

Despite having no talent for this sort of thing, Jameela decides to set off on a one-woman operation to rescue him. Her quest soon lands her at the center of an international plan targeting the 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 no-holds-barred satire about the international cost of the American Dream, Jameela Green Ruins Everything is a compulsively readable, darkly comedic, yet unexpectedly touching story of one woman's search for meaning and connection.

Weight: 209g
Dimension: 203 x 135 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063271609