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Mr Breakfast: A Novel

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You are given the best ice cream in the world, but can only experience it once. Which do you choose, a single taste of heaven or a lifetime of okays? A compulsively readable, introspective tale about the road not taken… At its heart, this is an arresting and imaginative meditation on life. Perfect for fans of magical realism with a free-flowing style like that of David Mitchell and Toshikazu Kawaguchi.” — Library Journal

You have the opportunity to visit 2 other lives and observe them. The other two lives are lives that you would have had if you had made other choices. You may visit each life only 3 times. When you are ready, you will choose one of the three lives and live it until you die. The moment you decide which you prefer, you will forget you ever had a choice. Years pass by, but the tattoo’s magic demands a decision, and supernatural emissaries return to warn Graham that he must make a final choice or face disaster.Carroll's blend of magic realism and fantasy and horror is so unique - his books are always weird and emotionally moving and funny and full of bull terriers and little nods to previous books - he's spectacular and everyone should read at least one of his books in their lifetime (any of them). Carroll] gives readers so much to consider about love, art, disappointment, loss, the wondrous possibilities of life, and the vast unknowables of the universe… This really interesting and weird novel challenges and delights.” — Bookreporter Shortly after receiving his tattoo, which shows “a bee inside the stomach of a frog inside the stomach of a hawk inside the stomach of a lion,” Patterson encounters a mohawked doppelganger, the Graham Patterson who cut his hair, honed his stand-up, and became the nation’s most popular comedian. The first Graham can see, hear, and follow the second Graham, but he cannot touch or interact with him. In the second Graham’s world, the first Graham is a sort of ghost, silent and invisible. Patterson is shown three alternative lives and has the opportunity to visit each one before deciding on which life he wants to live in for good. The lives are a manifestation of his deepest desires and will illuminate how we tend to write the story of our lives through the power of the imagination.

Like many countries, Iraq's primary breakfast staple is bread. A flat bread known as khubz and an oval-shaped bread loaf called samoon are found individually or in tandem at most meals. At breakfast, bread is enjoyed with butter, jam, honey, cheese, Libna (yogurt with olive oil), date molasses, sesame paste and pretty much everything else available that you can put on bread or dip bread in. Bread also acts as key component in most breakfast recipes that are considered uniquely Iraqi. The Iraqi people may not like us too much sometimes. They may see American men as gluttons and American women as sluts. But you know what? When I'm in a bad mood, sometimes I see the world that way too. A lot of Westerners generalize the Iraqi people as the enemy. That's what you do when you're dragged into war. But we have to remember that in the end, we're all just people... we all go to sleep at night and we all get up in the morning. And through it all, when we wake, the first thing our bodies crave is not democracy, religious solidarity or blood... it's breakfast... one meal... one important way that we might find that it's better to learn about cultures and possibly even respect them, before we blindly consider them weird or immoral and denounce them. May breakfast bring our nations closer together as it does our families. Amen. (The same closing for both Christian and Muslim prayer, although in Iraq it is often spelled "Aameen" and spoken with rolling gargle sound after the first syllable.) Shortly after Graham’s first encounter with his alternate life, Anna Mae Collins, the mysterious tattooist, shows up to explain the rules: Anyone who receives the “breakfast tattoo” can move at will between three distinct lives by tapping their tattoo and saying a code word. In Graham’s case, this codeword is “Pinecone,” the name of his childhood dog. There are only a limited number of switches that a person can make, and when they at last decide which life they’d like to live, their tattoo will vanish and they will forget about the tattoo and the magic. Anna Mae leaves Graham, who immediately begins his quest.A breakfast dish of Jewish Babylonian descent called Kahi is another favorite in Iraq. A relative of baklava, kahi consists of very thin folded layers of filo-style dough that is baked and then drenched with honey or a flavored sugar syrup called sheera (not to be confused with the breakfast porridge from India of the same name). Kahi is sometimes eaten with the above mentioned gaymer cream.

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