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Jessica Jiji

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Born

New York, The United States

Website

https://www.jessicajiji.com/

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Genre

Chick Lit, Romance, Ebooks

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October 2020

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I. Love. Readers! You are part of an awesome tribe. And I am one of you. My mother always told me we could travel far with books. Long before there were virtual tours and Google Earth, she introduced me to books that transported me across seas and centuries. One of my favorites is “The Alexandria Quartet,” a set of four linked novels set in Egypt. If you haven’t read them, that’s at least one recommendation I can offer by way of thanks for visiting this website.

Like parents everywhere, my father used to tell me bedtime stories. Being Iraqi, he made up tales about a brave girl named Cassima. Instead of starting with “Once Upon a Time…” he would open with the line, “I was a cook for the Queen of Iraq…” The cook was never much good at fighting ...more

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Average rating: 3.39 · 702 ratings · 123 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sweet Dates in Basra 3.47 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Judge a Book by its Lover 3.32 avg rating — 37 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diamonds Take Forever: A Witty Women's Fiction Romance of Modern Dating and Cultural Identity in NYC 2.35 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How To Judge A Book By Its Lover 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweet Dates in Basra: A Novel by Jessica Jiji (Goodreads Author), Adriana Sevahn Nichols (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There could be no debt between them, or rather, what they owed each other continued to grow through the years, not in the form of a balance due but as a credit to both.”
― Jessica Jiji, Sweet Dates in Basra

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