Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots, Jessica Soffer
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots, Jessica Soffer
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Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

Author: Jessica Soffer

Narrator: Kathleen Gati, Kate Reinders

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2013

Synopsis

This is a story about accepting the people we love — the people we have to love and the people we choose to love, the families we’re given and the families we make. It’s the story of two women adrift in New York, a widow and an almost-orphan, each searching for someone she’s lost. It’s the story of how, even in moments of grief and darkness, there are joys waiting nearby. Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks, making croissants and chocolat chaud, seeking out rare ingredients, all to earn the love of her distracted chef of a mother, who is now packing her off to boarding school. In one last effort to prove herself indispensable, Lorca resolves to track down the recipe for her mother’s ideal meal, an obscure Middle Eastern dish called masgouf. Victoria, grappling with her husband’s death, has been dreaming of the daughter they gave up forty years ago. An Iraqi Jewish immigrant who used to run a restaurant, she starts teaching cooking lessons; Lorca signs up. Together, they make cardamom pistachio cookies, baklava, kubba with squash. They also begin to suspect they are connected by more than their love of food. Soon, though, they must reckon with the past, the future, and the truth — whatever it might be. Bukra fil mish mish, the Arabic saying goes. Tomorrow, apricots may bloom.

About Jessica Soffer

Jessica Soffer earned her MFA at Hunter College, where she was a Hertog Fellow. Her work has appeared in Granta and Vogue, among other publications. Her father, a painter and sculptor, emigrated from Iraq to the United States in the late 1940s. She teaches fiction at Connecticut College and lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meryl on May 13, 2013

When I visited Tel Aviv in 2008, I was treated to Shabbat dinner at the home of my friends' grandparents, Iraqi immigrants, who had fled to Israel in the 40s. It was one of the best meals I had ever eaten, pomegranates and persimmons mixed in with the rice and meat. I had eaten Persian food many tim......more

Goodreads review by Renita on November 08, 2014

Okay, this review is going to be tough. This book made me angry and it made me cry. I loved some bits and loathed others. So, The things I loved: The writing. Absolutely awe-inspiring. I was going 'wow' and highlighting sections to re-read. The author's imagery, her food metaphors are simply beautiful......more

Goodreads review by Katia on September 24, 2013

If not the recommendation in the Time magazine by Colum McCann I would never know about this book. But I very much enjoy McCann poetic prose, so I thought I give it a go. I cannot say unfortunately it's met my expectations. I do not want to criticise too much - it is a debut novel. And the girl who......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on December 08, 2016

Lorca is fourteen years old and about to be sent to boarding school. To sway her mother, who is a professional chef, Lorca will attempt to cook the best dish her mother ever had: a Middle Eastern dish called Masgouf. Starting her search at the bookstore, Lorca looks through cookbooks and Zagat broch......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on May 02, 2013

Great writing and food; what’s not to like? I loved this slowly unraveling story about an emotionally wounded teenaged girl, her distant self absorbed mother, and an elderly widow who is drawn into a complex relationship with the teenager. It is an exotic feast of words. The girl, Lorca, tries to fi......more

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