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Bailey's Cafe
''Bailey's Café'' is a 1992 novel by award-winning American author Gloria Naylor. The novel consists of a loosely intertwined group of stories, all told in first person, about the owners and patrons of ''Bailey's Cafe'', an apparently supernatural establishment, set nominally in New York City, whose entrance can be found from different places and times.〔Clapp, Susannah. ("No Charge for Lost Souls: 'Bailey's Cafe' - Gloria Naylor." ) ''The Independent''. Independent Digital News and Media, 12 July 1992.〕
==Plot summary and settings==
The unnamed owner of Bailey's Cafe (he is called "Bailey" as a nickname) acquires the cafe after his return from WWII and claims that it is magical and it saved him. Though the cafe is nominally set in New York City as per Naylor's earlier novel ''Mama Day'',〔"Delta Dust Blues: Bailey’s Cafe." ''Gloria Naylor: In Search of Sanctuary''. Virginia C. Fowler. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 121-139.〕 patrons wander into it from different times and places. The cafe also has a back door that apparently opens onto infinity (or death). The stories he tells include his own and his wife, Nadine's, as well as those of several of the patrons of the cafe who live in a nearby brownstone including Eve (who owns the brownstone down the street that harbors mostly fugitive women and serves as a bordello), Ester (the victim of sexual and emotional abuse), "Miss Maple" (a male cross-dresser), Jessie Bell (a bisexual drug-addict), Mary (a self-mutilated beauty), and Mariam (a mentally challenged, pregnant, virgin, teenager). Each person's back story is told by the owner as they come into the cafe.
Bailey frames the first-person narrative of each character but one: Nadine opens and closes the story of Mariam (Mary).
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