Clearly I was on an Eggers-binge in 2018 :) This might be Eggers's best one in the series 'I steal an amazing life story and make it into a novel' It (again) raises the question why people need Eggers to write them auto-biographies, especially in the case of Mokhtar Alkhanshali who seems smart enough to speak for himself.

The Monk of Mokha tells Mokhtar story: a twenty-something sho dod not manage to finish college and now works as a doorman and comes up with the wicked idea of exporting coffee from Yemen (where his family is from) and ends up being caught in the war there.

Again I learned a lot about Yemen (and coffee) from the book and the way Eggers tells everything keeps you interested in the story. The part where he (Eggers) is present in the story himself is a bit uncanny I found and stresses the strangeness of him writing this for/about someone else.