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description: 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 were given and the families we make. Its the story of two women adrift in New York a widow and an almost-orphan each searching for someone shes lost. Its 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 mothers ideal meal an obscure Middle Eastern dish called masgouf.Victoria grappling with her husbands 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.
language: English
title: Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
publisher: Brilliance Audio