Hope McKenna-Smith's life has seen better days. A few years ago, her long time husband left her, her mother lost her battle with cancer, and now the Cape Cod based family bakery she is running is on the brink of closing due to money issues.And her daughter is in the difficult teen phase of her life.
And now she is slowly losing her beloved grandmother ''Mamie'' Rose to Alzheimer. She sometimes has a rare clear moment, and in one she asks Hope to go and search for a few family members she lost contact with during World War II. Mamie is originally from France, and Hope travels to Paris to trace back her Mamie's family members. And during her stay there, she learns more about Mamie's past, that leads back to the horrors of the Holocaust, and therefore sadly that she can't find some of Mamie's family anymore. But she does find Mamie's one true love Jacob, and hopefully it is not too late to bring back Jacob to his true love Rose, after she suffered from a stroke..
I have read (and reviewed) all of the previous by Kristin Harmel, and during the years, she has truly become one of my favorite authors. So I was very happy to find out that there has been a new book (which I will also review soon..) and a 10th anniversary edition of The Sweetness of Forgetting, which I hadn't read before. The style of writing is, just as her previous books, fenomenal! It is her signature style of writing that I love in all her books. It is fiction, but the characters are very relatable and realistic, and the storyline..oh.. it is just beautiful and sad at the same time because of Mamie's tragic past. But in the end, there is hope for Hope, and this was truly and ending that wrapped everything up perfectly! I loved every part of this wonderful book, and I am looking forward to dive in the new book by Kristin Harmel, to be reviewed soon!!
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