Description The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope....
Spanning three cinematic decades, The Lost Family is a charming, funny, and elegantly bittersweet study of the repercussions of loss and love..
Jenna Blum artfully brings to the page a husband devastated by a grief he cannot name, a frustrated wife struggling to compete with a ghost she cannot banish, and a daughter sensitive to the pain of both her own Family and another Lost before she was born.
But over the next twenty years, the indelible sadness of those memories will overshadow Peter, June, and their daughter Elsbeth, transforming them in shocking, heartbreaking, and unexpected ways.
When June unexpectedly becomes pregnant, Peter proposes, believing that beginning a new Family with the woman he loves will allow him to let go of the horror of the past.
Though she is twenty years his junior, the two begin a passionate, whirlwind courtship.
Then exquisitely beautiful June Bouquet, an up-and-coming young model, appears at the restaurant, piercing Peter\'s guard.
Running Masha\'s consumes him, as does his terrible guilt over surviving the horrors of the Nazi death camp while his wife, Masha--the restaurant\'s namesake--and two young daughters perished.
He has resigned himself to a solitary life.
But Peter does not care for the parade of eligible women who come to the restaurant hoping to catch his eye.
With his movie-star good looks and tragic past, Peter, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the most eligible bachelor in town.
In 1965 Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha\'s to savor its brisket bourguignon and impeccable service and to admire its dashing owner and head chef Peter Rashkin.
It is compassionate, masterful and disturbingly contemporary."--Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarah\'s Key The New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us creates a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II in this emotionally charged, beautifully rendered story that spans a generation, from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Description The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope...
