Café Deux Mondes Single Ploughshares Solos Volume 3 edition by Catherine Browder Cookbooks Food Wine eBooks
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When the Khourys and McKissicks meet to share a neighborly meal, an adventure begins. Living in the changing ethnic landscape of Kansas City, one is a family of Syrian immigrants; the other, African Americans with roots in Louisiana. What brings them together is a love of food. Along with friendship, a dream takes root between the two mothers, Miriam and Tamara—starting a new restaurant that will feature the specialties from both of their traditions, the Café Deux Mondes, or Two Worlds Cafe. Little do they know just what they are up against when they begin their little venture. From the skepticism of their churches to neighborhood crime, disaster always seems to be just around the corner. Award-winning writer Catherine Browder takes a warm look at the troubles and joys of the American melting pot, and how we can grow even from our failures.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Catherine Browder's most recent collection, Now We Can All Go Home Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov, has just been released from BkMk Press (November 2014). She is the author of two previous collections and a feuillet, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Missouri Arts Council. Her stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and won awards from American Fiction, Kansas Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Big Muddy and the Missouri Writers Guild. She has taught creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is an advisory editor for New Letters literary magazine, where her book reviews frequently appear. A member of the Dramatist Guild of America, her plays have been produced regionally and in New York City. Prior to teaching creative writing, she taught English as a foreign language in Japan and Taiwan, and ESL at refugee resettlement centers and colleges in the USA. She lives with her husband in Kansas City, Missouri.
Café Deux Mondes Single Ploughshares Solos Volume 3 edition by Catherine Browder Cookbooks Food Wine eBooks
Tamara is a nice, middle-class black woman in a classic, though run down Kansas City neighborhood, growing older now, with liberal, somewhat befuddled views. Like the greater world, her neighborhood is multicultural, hosting not only blacks, whites, and Latinos, but also middle easterners. Tamara fights against stereotypes to become friends with Miriam, a Syrian/Palestinian who ought to be Muslim, but is Christian like herself. The two found a restaurant called Cafe Deux Mondes, or Two Worlds Cafe, overcoming myriad obstacles, chief among them their own inexperience, while their bemused families look on, and finally join in the proud endeavor. The story is an almost ironic tribute to American enterprise, but Browder allows multiculturalism to show its ugly side: a botched burglary by a cherubic young Mexican the women had begun to trust, and a shooting almost at doorside. Such scenes deepen the story’s impact, and altogether the widely-published Browder has fashioned a dense, polished narrative, with a fine mastery of characterization reminiscent of Dickens. CAFE DEUX MONDES is very good to read in troubled times, and perhaps, with all the descriptions of food, at Christmas. – John Mort, author of THE ILLEGALProduct details
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Café Deux Mondes Single Ploughshares Solos Volume 3 edition by Catherine Browder Cookbooks Food Wine eBooks Reviews
I'll admit at the start that I didn't finish this, but the style was just way too cutesy to get past. From other reviews, it seems to be a feel-good plot, so I don't regret not finishing.
This is a story about friendship, and growth, and doing audacious things.Two women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends, and open a restaurant that you'll wish you could visit. The characters are well-drawn and engaging, and the story plants some seeds for you to think about without you really noticing it.
This was a delightful dip into the present day lives of two families making their ways in a diverse neighborhood. This story is not about the success or failure of Cafe Deux Mondes or Two Worlds Cafe but of a shared experience and accommodation of cultural foods and changing mores. Miriam and Tamara are very real and likable neighbors. I found it to be heartwarming and hopeful.
Driving through the Old Northeast/East neighborhoods of Kansas City gives one the sights/sounds that fill Catherine Browder's novella in vivid detail. Race and color, culture and religion, food and customs hover over the little restaurant these women create on an avenue known for its immigrant mix. And its in that mix where their menu of energy, understanding and affection create a charming story that captures the reader who doesn't want the last meal to be served. Browder's prose deftly pauses to describe settings and people but races with excitement as the realities of the neighborhood make their way into their tiny establishment. One wants her characters to continue. . .to develop, to entertain, to teach.
Catherine Browder's latest offering, Cafe Deux Mondes, is a charming study of two families from different cultural backgrounds striving to live the American Dream. One family is from Syria; the other from Louisiana. Each is headed by a strong female, Miriam and Tamara, who meet in the diverse multicultural atmosphere of Kansas City's Northeast neighborhood. Both women share a love of food and decide to open a small cafe that will feature dishes from each culture. But those around them are less enthusiastic about the venture. Their friends fail to support the restaurant and the neighborhood, with its abandoned buildings and crime, keep customers away. Miriam and Tamara are finally forced to face reality and close their cafe. But in no way is this the story of failure. The families of both found skills and determination they did not know they had. Miriam and Tamara are going on with their lives far richer for their experience. They are living the American Dream.
Tamara is a nice, middle-class black woman in a classic, though run down Kansas City neighborhood, growing older now, with liberal, somewhat befuddled views. Like the greater world, her neighborhood is multicultural, hosting not only blacks, whites, and Latinos, but also middle easterners. Tamara fights against stereotypes to become friends with Miriam, a Syrian/Palestinian who ought to be Muslim, but is Christian like herself. The two found a restaurant called Cafe Deux Mondes, or Two Worlds Cafe, overcoming myriad obstacles, chief among them their own inexperience, while their bemused families look on, and finally join in the proud endeavor. The story is an almost ironic tribute to American enterprise, but Browder allows multiculturalism to show its ugly side a botched burglary by a cherubic young Mexican the women had begun to trust, and a shooting almost at doorside. Such scenes deepen the story’s impact, and altogether the widely-published Browder has fashioned a dense, polished narrative, with a fine mastery of characterization reminiscent of Dickens. CAFE DEUX MONDES is very good to read in troubled times, and perhaps, with all the descriptions of food, at Christmas. – John Mort, author of THE ILLEGAL
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