Jam was everywhere in people’s homes, arranged jar by jar on top of their refrigerators, on their mantles, shelves, and in the kitchens on their countertops by the drain boards. A children’s novel set in a community where everybody’s business is everybody’s business! One small problem concerning a jar of jam becomes a huge problem entangling the whole community. Twelve-year-old Jalal takes matters into his own hands and sets about solving this problem like an adult. Will he succeed in reaching his desired outcome? What will he have to do and how many hoops will he have to jump through before it is all over?

Houshang Moradi Kermani (born 7 September 1944 at Sirch, a village in Kerman Province, Iran) is an eminent Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. For his lasting contribution as a children's writer, he was a finalist in 2014 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.[1] Moradi Kermani was born in Sirch, a village in Kerman Province, and was educated in Sirch, Kerman, and Tehran.[2] Several Iranian movies and TV-series have been made based on his books. In 2006, Dariush Mehrjui directed Mehman-e Maman based on Moradi Kermani's novel with the same title.[3] Some of Moradi Kermani's books have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, and Armenian. His auto-biography was published by Moin Publishers in 2005, entitled "You're No Stranger Here" (Shoma ke gharibe nistid).