The sweetness of forgetting
Call Number
- FICTION HARM (OSH)
Edition
Updated 10th anniversary edition ; Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Publication Information
New York : Gallery Books, 2022.
Physical Description
367 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her, and her bank account is nearly depleted. Her own dreams of becoming a lawyer long gone, she's running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen. Now, Hope's beloved French-born grandmother Mamie is drifting away in a haze of Alzheimer's. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about the past, the secrets she has held on to for so many years will soon be lost forever. Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in WWII Paris. Armed with a scrawled list of names, Hope heads to France to uncover a seventy-year-old mystery. Hope pieces together her grandmother's past bit by bit. Uncovering horrific tales of the Holocaust, she realizes the astonishing will of her grandmother to endure in a world gone mad. And to reunite two lovers torn apart by terror, all she'll need is a dash of courage, and the belief that God exists everywhere, even in cake.
Notes
Includes a Book Club Favorites reader's guide with discussion questions (in unnumbered pages at end of work).
Includes an excerpt for The Paris Daughter (in unnumbered pages at end of work).