Crescent
by Diana Abu-Jaber
"Love simmers in a Lebanese café in Los Angeles — one dish at a time."
Sirine, an Iraqi-American chef in LA's 'Teherangeles', falls for an exiled Iraqi professor in this sensuous novel where food carries memory, longing and home. A love story you can taste.
Worth knowing
Winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction. If you liked Like Water for Chocolate.
