Petaluma -From the bestselling author, Dave Eggers comes the story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali. This heart-pounding true story weaves together the history of coffee, the struggles of everyday Yemenis living through civil war, and the courageous journey of a young man—a Muslim and a U.S. citizen—following the most American of dreams.
Dave Eggers is the author of eleven books, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the winner of France’s Prix Médicis Etranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His nonfiction and journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Essays.
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