'The Monk of Mokha' follows the true-life adventures of an immigrant turned coffee-entrepreneur
Jan 30, 2018
4 minutes
Have another cup of coffee. It could save the world. Just make sure it’s the right kind of coffee.
That summary stands as a ridiculously oversimplified summary of The Monk of Mokha, the latest book by Dave Eggers. The book offers yet another example of the author’s uncanny ability to transform the long-odds stories of real-life immigrants and their American offspring into poignant and, often painful, page-turners.
Along the way, Eggers obliterates the often-errant logic behind persistent political logrolling in American politics based on presumptions of guilt and malice among Muslims and various immigrant peoples. As he did in “Zeitoun” and “What Is
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