# Bailey’s Cafe

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- Book: [Bailey’s Cafe](https://www.bookquiver.com/gloria-naylor/baileys-cafe) ([Bailey’s Cafe.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gloria-naylor/baileys-cafe.md))
- Authors: [Gloria Naylor](https://www.bookquiver.com/gloria-naylor)
- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4901-620-7
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'Gloria Naylor is gifted with timeless wisdom, bottomless empathy, and limitless language. Her novels will shine a light for readers and writers for generations to come' TAYARI JONES 'A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humour' New York Times Book Review In postwar Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, there's a little place that draws people from all over - not for the food, and definitely not for the coffee. An in-between place that's only there when you need it, Bailey's Cafe is a crossroads where patrons stay for a while before making a choice: Move on or check out? There's Sadie, the ladylike alcoholic with a mania for cleanliness; Sweet Esther, who caters to unspeakable appetites in a nearby 'boarding house', taking payment only in white roses; and Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. Naylor's breath-taking novel is an enthralling fusion of lives whose courage, mystery and humour suggest nothing less than a blues tapestry of America. 'Gloria Naylor was one of the greatest novelists who ever lived. She holds a hallowed place in the canon, and also in hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits' ROBERT JONES, Jr., author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets