Menlo Park, California – Sometimes she did not see her parents all day. They were gone before she woke up in the morning, and they came home at night after she had fallen asleep.
As a child, it made Almira resent the restaurant business they ran. “God, this is tiring,” she remembers thinking, as she watched her parents shape their lives around the mealtime rush. There were always appliances to fix, inventories to take, and emergency shopping to complete.
