Donia Bijan

Family. It's all we've got, when you come right down to the heart of things, and blood relationship is not necessarily a requirement. The Last Days of Café Leila is about family, in its many permutations.

Noor's father sent her to America when she was eighteen, away from the difficult and brutal life in post-revolution Iran. More than thirty years later Noor goes back to Tehran after she divorces her husband, sulky fifteen-year-old daughter Lily in tow. That summer, spent with the people who loved Noor enough to send her away, will change them both, in ways that neither could imagine.

My heart was touched by the story. It's another one for my recommend-to-friends shelf.… (más)