Bailey's Cafe
by Gloria Naylor
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Author: Gloria NaylorEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1993-08-31
ISBN: 0679748210
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: If you are in the mood for deep thinking and soul searching...
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't even know where to start. I read this book for an honors seminar in college. The book simply brings the characters to life. Bailey's Cafe is this mystical place where people go in a moment of depression, a lifetime of depression, a period of transition. The characters that are highlighted with a chapter all have different stories about how they got to this place. Esther was abused by her brother and given into domestic preverted sexual slavery to his boss. She finds the boardinghouse/whorehouse (the characters in the book are debating which it is) that Eve operates next to Bailey's. Eve gives no judgement, just a safe space and unconditional love. Jesse Bell has become a heroin addict after a long life of love and fighting for what she wants and needs but loses. Eve helps her through that. Sadie is a woman who was abused as a child and never figured out how to get what she needed until she could make it all up in a wino's delirium. There are a number of equally painful and touching stories, mostly stories without ends. Naylor gives the details and descriptions needed to get inside these people's heads. Let it happen. You will probably be as flabbergasted and confused as I am. But I know that there are some amazing insights that I can peice out of this novel and that thinking about it all, trying to make sense of it all is going to take me a long while. And isn't that the point of great literature?
Summary of Bailey's Cafe
Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of Mama Day and The Women of Brewster Place is a feast for the senses and the spirit. "A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor."--New York Times Book Review.Naylor, Gloria Books
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