"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" isn't on my Top 10 list of favorite books but its lengthy, honest and engaging preface may be one of the best things I've ever read. Now its edgy writer is coming out with -- I can't wait! -- "a true account of a scrappy underdog" who "surmounts immense obstacles to start his own coffee company." That's according to The Washington Post's ultimately critical review which casts "The Monk of Mokha," as a patronizing trope of an immigrant trying to make his way in the coffee business. The WaPo's take on books is often spot on, but I think I'll give this one a whirl anyway. Eggers had me at "biography" and "coffee." What more could I want in a book? Then I learned this was an immigrant's story and now I can't resist. I'm working on my own long-form narrative piece on a Pittsburgh family that is terrified of being torn apart by federal immigration policy. I can't wait to see how Dave Eggers handles the subject of immigration.
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Sparrow
2/9/2018 11:42:13 am
Dave Eggers books should be advertised as a cure for insomnia. More like a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Boredom. Ugh. An Eggers book about coffee is the biggest oxymoron ever.
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