The Sweetness of Forgetting (Unabridged)
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
At 36, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her for a 22-year-old, 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, who wowed the Cape with her fabulous pastries for more than 50 years, is drifting away into 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 Paris. And then, arming her with a scrawled list of names, she sends Hope to France to uncover a 70-year-old mystery.
Hope’s emotional journey takes her through the bakeries of Paris and three religious traditions, all guided by Mamie’s fairy tales and the sweet tastes of home. As Hope pieces together her family’s history, she finds horrific Holocaust stories mixed with powerful testimonies of her family’s will to survive 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....
Customer Reviews
The Sweetness of Forgetting
I loved this book, and I enjoyed the narrator. She made the characters come to life. Very interesting historical threads in the story line, I truly enjoyed it!
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Horrible narration
Just read the book. The audio is terrible. Horrible narrator. I wish I could get my money back. How does someone this inept get a job narrating?
Good story, HORRIBLE narrator
This was a pretty good story, HOWEVER, I nearly could not finish it due to the awful narration. When she is speaking as the American characters she sounds like the Saturday Night Live version of the Kardashians: whiny valley girl. When she's doing the french accents it waffles between British cockney and Inspector Clouseau. It's so distracting that it seriously takes away from the story itself. Worth reading the book, but if you plan to buy the audiobook-- listen to the sample first to see if you can stand it!!!