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โSassy, brash, acrobatic and colorful . . . I want to read it again and again.โ โTimeโImpressive . . . Sofferโs style is natural and assured.โ โMeg Wolitzer, All Things Considered, NPR
Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks to earn the love of her distracted mother, a chef, who is now packing her off to boarding school. Desperate to prove herself, Lorca resolves to track down the recipe for her motherโs ideal meal. She signs up for cooking lessons from Victoria, an Iraqi-Jewish immigrant profoundly shaken by her husbandโs death. Soon these two women develop a deeper bond while their concoctionsโcardamom pistachio cookies, baklava, and masgoufโbake in Victoriaโs kitchen. But their individual endeavors force a reckoning with the past, the future, and the truthโwhatever it might be.
In Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots we see how food sustains not just our bodies, but our hopes as well. Bukra fil mish mish, the Arabic saying goes. Tomorrow, apricots may bloom.
โA profound and necessary new voice. Sofferโs prose is as controlled as it is fresh, as incisive as it is musical. Soffer has arrived early, with an orchestra of talent at her disposal.โ โColum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
โMoving [and] extraordinary.โ โAtlantic
โA work of beauty in words . . . Soffer is a master artist painting the hidden hues of the human soul.โ โNew York Journal of Books ISBN:9780544289734
