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Donia Bijan
Donia Bijan is known for her books "The Last Days of Café Leila" and "Maman's Homesick Pie." Her work often blends fiction with explorations of food, family, and cultural heritage.
The last days of Café Leila
"When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran's rich, yet tragic, history"--