Books Details
Author : Dave Eggers Pages : 352 pages Publisher : Vintage Language : ISBN-10 :
1101971444 ISBN-13 : 9781101971444
Books Descriptions
From the best-selling author of The Circle, the true story of a young Yemeni-American
man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni
coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in
San Francisco, one of seven siblings brought up by Yemeni immigrants in a tiny
apartment. At age twenty-four, unable to pay for college, he works as a doorman,
until a chance encounter awakens his interest in coffee and its rich history in Yemen.
Reinventing himself, he sets out to learn about coffee cultivation, roasting and
importing. He travels to Yemen and visits farms in every corner of the country,
collecting samples, eager to improve cultivation methods and help Yemeni farmers
bring their coffee back to its former glory. And he is on the verge of success when civil
war engulfs Yemen in 2015. The U.S. embassy closes, Saudi bombs begin to rain down
on the country and Mokhtar is trapped in Yemen. This is a heart-pounding true
