300th Post Is About Books...

Jameela Green Ruins Everything-


Your Driver Is Waiting
Getting a bit outside of my comfort zone this week, reading comic novels from women  from  Muslim backgrounds- I didn't really intend to read both books together, but, once I had, I thought it would make an excellent 300th Bohemian Crip post.
 Jameela Green opens the book as a writer in the beginning of a spiritual crisis, following a disappointing book launch(with a polished high school frenemy in attendance)She inadvertently creates a situation where she got the young naive imam at her mosque in troubleand put him in the crosshairs of radicalized splinter cells of DICK, the aptly-named terrorist organization, that, strangely, loves a good wedding.
Jameela promises God service to her community in exchange for a big launch for her novel, but gets her imam in trouble and has to go to Syria to straighten things out. Never thought I'd read something from a Muslim writer that would conjure up words like "wacky" or "zany", but that goes to prove that even people who aren't offended at the thought of wokeness or cultural pluralism do have to guard against stereotypes. Maybe even more so after being patient and diligent about reading "The Kite Runner" and the like

 The stakes are much higher for Damani, the Driver in " Your Driver Is Waiting".  She, like her unnamed, strife-ridden metropolis, is hanging on by a thread, though she still tries to keep a sense of humor, as well as an eye out for pretty-but-clueless Social Justice Warrior Jolene. This book is darker than the other, but the observations about her passengers and stuff can be both trenchant and comical.