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100	1		_aMelany Neilson
245	1		_aThe Persia Cafe
260			_bSt. Martin's Griffin
300			_a276 pages
520			_aGrowing up in a small Mississippi River town, Fannie Leary works at the local caf,̌ 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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