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 grandmother--and discovers more than she ever imagined. --Patti Callahan, New York Times bestselling author of Surviving Savannah.
Kristin Harmel is a powerful and dazzling voice in historical fiction.
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.
Uncovering horrific tales of the Holocaust, she realizes the astonishing will of her grandmother to endure in a world gone mad.
What follows is an immersive and evocative tale of generations struggling to survive (Publishers Weekly) as Hope pieces together her grandmother\'s past bit by bit.
Armed with a scrawled list of names, Hope heads to France to uncover a seventy-year-old mystery.
Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in WWII Paris.
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.
Now, Hope\'s beloved French-born grandmother Mamie is drifting away in a haze of Alzheimer\'s.
Her own dreams of becoming a lawyer long gone, she\'s running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen.
She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her, and her bank account is nearly depleted.
Updated with a new author\'s note and recipes for this 10th anniversary edition!At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news.
The beautifully complex (Woman\'s Day) classic that made Kristin Harmel a superstar follows a woman who must travel from Cape Cod to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother that could change everything.
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 grandmother--and discovers more than she ever imagined
