Jamila is a girl who Peter briefly dated a year or so before the novel begins; she doesn’t appear in person in the novel. She was the most beautiful girl in Lara Jean’s class, after Genevieve, and Peter dated her while broken up with Genevieve. Genevieve spread racist and sexist rumors about Jamila in retaliation, and this resulted in Jamila’s parents putting her in private school. Lara Jean thinks of what happened to Jamila as an example of what happens when a person crosses Genevieve and makes the mistake of dating Peter.
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Jamila Singh Character Timeline in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
The timeline below shows where the character Jamila Singh appears in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 24
...sex. Then, Lara Jean notes that nobody can date Peter anyway, after what happened to Jamila Singh. Peter dated Jamila for a short time last year, and Genevieve spread such awful...
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As Lara Jean chatters about Jamila and Genevieve, Peter suggests that they let people—Genevieve especially—think that they’re dating for a while....
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