?I think we got off on the wrong foot with you telling me I had to be killed and then me
getting all upset about it. Let's start again. My name is Jameela and I'm a writer. What do
you do besides . . . assassinations? Is that a hobby or more of a full-time thing?? 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 count-less 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.
