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For eight decades, Tehran's Café Leila has dispensed fresh, inventive fare and comfort. Second-generation proprietor Zod Yadegar, esteemed for his culinary improvisation and limitless hospitality, sturdily preserves the eatery as a haven for locals and longtime staff. However, the third generation manifests little of Zod's tenacity: once-indomitable daughter Noor, dispatched to America 30 years ago in the wake of tragedy, now returns, freshly heartbroken and emotionally adrift, in the grudging company of teenag...Log In or Sign Up to Read More