The Monk of Mokha

ISBN-13:	9781101971444
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/08/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	91,434
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	960L (what's this?)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gripping, triumphant adventure” (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Circle—the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen’s central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country’s rugged mountains and meet beleaguered but determined farmers. But when war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen without sacrificing his dreams or abandoning his people.