The Sweetness of Forgetting A Book Club Recommendation!

by Harmel, Kristin

• ISBN13: 9781451644296
• ISBN10: 1451644299
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: Gallery Books

Summary

From the author of Italian for Beginners, a lush, heartwarming novel about a woman who travels to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmotherand discovers more than she ever imagined…Hope McKenna-Smith, divorced mother of a surly not-quite-teenage girl, runs her family bakery on Cape Cod, but is starting to wonder what might have been. What if she hadn't abandoned her dreams of law school? What if she hadn't quit her job to raise her daughter? What if she hadn't caught her husband cheating on her with a clichÉd blonde bimbo? When her aging grandmother, Rose, summons her to hear a long-held secret, Hope finally has the opportunity to stop thinking "what if?" and start thinking "what now?" Rose's memory is ebbing rapidly due to the onset of Alzheimer's, and she knows she doesn't have much time left to tell Hope the truth about a secret she's kept for seventy years. Giving Hope nothing but a list of names, Rose sends her on a journey of discovery that takes Hope to a synagogue and a mosque in Paris, to a history buried in the Holocaust, and to a long-lost love with secrets of his own. The Sweetness of Forgetting is a story of family, love, honesty…and baked goods.

Author Biography

Kristin Harmel is the author of four previous women’s fiction novels, as well as two young adult novels. She also writes for People magazine, and her work has been featured in Glamour, Woman's Day, Men's Health, and Runner’s World, among many other media outlets. She lives in Orlando, Florida.