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At 36, Hope McKenna-Smith is not any 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 over, she's owning 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. However in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about days gone by, the secrets she has held on to for so a long time will be lost forever. Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in Paris. And, arming her with a scrawled set of names, she sends Desire to France to discover 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. Also to reunite two lovers torn apart by terror, all she'll need is a dash of courage, and the fact that God exists everywhere, even in cake....
