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      The Persia Cafe

      by Melany Neilson
      Published
      Feb 2001
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      276
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      Growing up in a small Mississippi River town, Fannie Leary works at the local café, trying to hold her own in a world of slow expectations and hard boundaries. Dreaming that her cooking will be her ticket out of Persia, she cleaves to Mattie, the irrepressible black woman who runs the kitchen; to Will, the troubled, quiet boy she falls in love with; and eventually to Sheila Jones, a reclusive young girl who has returned with her mother from California to the town after her father's death. But when a young black boy suddenly disappears and the town erupts in violence, she is the only one who can piece their story together. What she uncovers is as unexpected as it is heartbreaking.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Feb 2002 Griffin ISBN13 9780312289164 ISBN10 0312289162
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      First Edition Feb 2001 Thomas Dunne ISBN13 9780312262198 ISBN10 0312262191
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      Feb 2001 St. Martin's ISBN13 9781429978590 ISBN10 1429978597
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      Feb 2001 Thomas Dunne ISBN10 B004M8SR1K
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      Dec 2001 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786237296 ISBN10 0786237295
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