Persia Cafe
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The Persia Cafe, a critically acclaimed novel which was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild in hardcover, is a story of love, betrayal, and murder in a small Mississippi River town. John Grisham praised it as "a haunting story; beautifully written, finely plotted."Fannie Leary works at the local cafe, trying to hold her own in a world of low expectations and dreaming that her cooking will be her ticket out of Persia. But when a young black boy suddenly disappears and the town erupts in violence, she is the only one who can piece the story together.
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An examination of the ordinariness of racism and what people will do out of loyalty, The Persia Cafe presents a fresh voice in Southern fiction.
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