The Sweetness of Forgetting - Opinion and Review

Kristin Harmel constantly pulls at my heartstrings, and The Sweetness of Forgetting was no exception. Another World War 2 historical fiction novel by the author, and another one that will stay with me for a long time to come.

Hope has had a very difficult go of life, having lost her husband to a younger woman, raising her angsty pre-teen on her own, trying to keep her bakery afloat, and now trying to cope with her grandmother getting sicker and sicker, and divulging new information about her past that she was not sure what to make of. Hope ends up taking a spontaneous trip to Paris to try to find family that will help make sense of her grandmother's past that she is just now learning isn't exactly what she had grown up to believe. Her grandmother wasn't born Catholic like she had thought, but was born Jewish, and when World War 2 broke out in Europe, everything changed.

Her grandmother had thought that her entire family, including the love of her life, and perished during the war, and with dementia setting in, Hope has taken it upon herself to get answers.

What Hope discovers will leave you both bursting with joy, and heartbroken at the same time. I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Dates read: May 7, 2021 - May 22, 2021