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The Sweetness of Forgetting

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At thirty-six,
Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her for a twenty-two 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 fifty 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 seventy-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. . . .

“Kristin Harmel . . .[is] one of my favorite authors!”
–Melissa Senate, bestselling author of
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School

PHOTO BY ROBIN GAGE

KRISTIN HARMEL
is the author of four previous women’s fiction titles as well as two young adult novels. Her work has been featured in
People, Ladies’ Home Journal, Glamour, Woman’s Day, Men’s Health, American Baby, Runner’s World,
and many other media outlets. She lives in Orlando, Florida.

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

Chapter Twenty-three

Chapter Twenty-four

Chapter Twenty-five

Chapter Twenty-six

Chapter Twenty-seven

Chapter Twenty-eight

Chapter Twenty-nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-one

Chapter Thirty-two

Chapter Thirty-three

Acknowledgments

Readers Group Guide

 

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Kristin Harmel

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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition August 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harmel, Kristin
  The sweetness of forgetting / Kristin Harmel. — 1st Gallery Books trade paperback ed.
        p. cm.
 1. Single-parent families—Fiction. 2. Grandparent and child—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction. 4. Life change events—Fiction. 5. Alzheimer’s disease—Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
  PS3608.A745S94 2012

  813’.6—dc23          2011051759

ISBN 978-1-4516-4429-6
ISBN 978-1-4516-4431-9 (ebook)

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