The Last Days of Cafe Leila
Waterville, Maine : Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 469 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila -- the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations -- hasn't changed. Zod, Noor's father, is still at the café�s helm, a much-loved patriarch offering laughter, solace, and nourishment to the makeshift family of regulars and waiters who call Café Leila home. With her discontented, very American teenage daughter, Lily, reluctantly at her side, Noor struggles to maintain a semblance of family life. But Tehran is a place of contradictions, where grace and brutal violence both have a foothold, and it's not long before rebellious Lily is caught up in both. As the novel folds back in time, stories emerge of Noor's ancestors, particularly of her mother, who was killed when Noor was a teenager. As past and present converge, Noor begins to understand her place in -- and her responsibility to -- this world and to the many souls who have sought refuge at the café.
Series: Kennebec Large Print superior collection.
Subjects:
Homecoming -- Fiction.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction.
Restaurants -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Iranian American women -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Iran -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Homecoming -- Fiction.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction.
Restaurants -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Iranian American women -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Iran -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781432839598
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Bijan | North Main | Large Print Fiction | In |