Like many Iraqi breakfast favorites, Gaymer Wa Dibis is often enjoyed from communal trays, with fingers acting as the only utensils. Some Iraqis prefer honey to date syrup. Others might add candied apricot to their Gaymer Wa Dibis. There are even variations with yogurt, olives and cheeses replacing the traditional ingredients. Like Murakami, Brian Eno, or David Lynch, Jonathan Carroll is entirely sui generis, someone whose work is so fresh, weird, and original, it stands in a class of its own. Maybe the most striking thing about this lean, remarkable novel is Carroll’s caffeinated curiosity about everything, his roving eye for everyday wonders, for the effervescent in the banal. Mr. Breakfast is a small book of big ideas, a set of Russian nesting dolls with an entire universe glowing at the center.” —Joe Hill, bestselling author of Heart- Shaped Box 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. I think most of us ask ourselves a universal question: what if? What if I got married earlier/later/never at all? What if I had rejected that job and gone after another? What if I moved there instead of here? What if...? 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.

Il finale non poteva che lasciarmi senza fiato, e io che mi emoziono quasi sempre, devo ammettere che è scesa l'inevitabile lacrimuccia. I´ve read most of the books written by Jonathan Carroll and I like them all. This one feels a bit disappointing. 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.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).

Along the way, he stops in North Carolina and gets a tattoo. Shortly thereafter, he starts seeing things that don’t make sense. It turns out that the tattoo is tremendously unique, and it will give him the ability to see his parallel lives. He can choose the life he is living, or see two other possible paths he could take, and he can stay in the life he chooses. But once he makes a choice there’s no telling what will happen. This book is so fascinating and compelling. It looks at the choices we make and the impacts those choices have on ourselves and others. It’s also a story about connection, love, and finding what—and whom—you care about. Obviously there’s some suspension of belief that’s necessary, but I just loved this. Così inizia la sinossi di un libro appena terminato e amato, scritto da Jonathan Carroll, un autore americano che se ancora non conoscete, vi consiglio vivamente di scoprire!A beautiful, brilliant meditation on art, love, inspiration and what makes life worthwhile.” — Neil Gaiman Muslim Iraqis celebrate Ramadan the entire ninth month of the Muslim year. During Ramadan, no food or water may be consumed from sunrise to sunset. Muslims believe fasting makes them stronger in their faith and helps them identify with the poor and hungry.

Hey traveling breakfast lover! Have you been to this part of the world? Do you have a breakfast experience you'd like to share. Facebook me and I'll put it in the article. 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 JournalShortly 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. 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. Iraqi cuisine is strongly influenced by neighboring countries, Turkey and Iran. One food writer generalized Iraqi meals as "a blend of standard Arabic cuisine with Persian influences and Turkish influence in the north." Another winner from one of our best fabulists… the novel thrilled me; it made me reflect on art, love, choices, and regrets; it left me with tears in the corners of my eyes and a smile on my face. What more can a reader ask for?” — TOR.com Mr. Breakfast tells the story of Graham Patterson, a failed comedian that recently ended a relationship with the love of his life and has reached a crossroads in his life. Patterson decides to take a cross country trip to California to figure what is he doing to do next. Along the trip, he stops in a small North Carolina town where he decides to get a tattoo. The tattoo artist explains the tattoo has a special ability to show the owner of the tattoo alternative lives they could have taken instead of their current life.