A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping triumphant adventure (Los Angeles Times) from
bestselling author Dave Eggers 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.
