Author Jenna Blum event at Wellesley Books
When:
Friday, Jun 15, 2018 7:00p -
8:30p
Friday, Jun 15, 2018 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
Admission:
$5.00
Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://store.wellesleybooks.com/event/jenna-blum
Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. Purchase your ticket by clicking the link to the left, or by calling Wellesley Books at 781-431-1160. Buy the book from Wellesley Books in order to meet the author and have her sign it at the event.
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ABOUT "THE LOST FAMILY"
The New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us creates a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II in this emotionally charged, beautifully rendered story that spans a generation, from the 1960s to the 1980s
In 1965 Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha’s to savor its brisket bourguignon and impeccable service and to admire its dashing owner and head chef Peter Rashkin. With his movie-star good looks and tragic past, Peter, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the most eligible bachelor in town. But Peter does not care for the parade of eligible women who come to the restaurant hoping to catch his eye. He has resigned himself to a solitary life. Running Masha’s consumes him, as does his terrible guilt over surviving the horrors of the Nazi death camp while his wife, Masha—the restaurant’s namesake—and two young daughters perished.
Then exquisitely beautiful June Bouquet, an up-and-coming young model, appears at the restaurant, piercing Peter’s guard. Though she is twenty years his junior, the two begin a passionate, whirlwind courtship. When June unexpectedly becomes pregnant, Peter proposes, believing that beginning a new family with the woman he loves will allow him to let go of the horror of the past. But over the next twenty years, the indelible sadness of those memories will overshadow Peter, June, and their daughter Elsbeth, transforming them in shocking, heartbreaking, and unexpected ways.
Jenna Blum artfully brings to the page a husband devastated by a grief he cannot name, a frustrated wife struggling to compete with a ghost she cannot banish, and a daughter sensitive to the pain of both her own family and another lost before she was born. Spanning three cinematic decades, The Lost Family is a charming, funny, and elegantly bittersweet study of the repercussions of loss and love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jenna Blum is the New York Times and # 1 internationally bestselling author of the novels Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers; the novella The Lucky One published in the in the anthology Grand Central; and the audio course “The Author At Work: The Art of Writing Fiction.” She was voted one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers and teaches creative writing at Boston’s Grub Street Writers. She lives in Boston.
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