Writer Lynda Cohen Loigman has two thrilling new releases out that inform tales of ladies within the not-so-distant previous.
Twenties Younger Woman Secretly Makes Matches in The Matchmaker’s Reward
I adored The Two Household Home and The Wartime Sisters so it’s no shock that it was love at first sight the second I noticed the quilt of this magnificence!
I devoured The Matchmaker’s Reward and have been eager about it rather a lot even after I completed. It’s a shifting story of Sara Glickman, a younger woman in early 1900s New York who secretly acts as a matchmaker earlier than her time and through a interval when solely the religious Jewish older males did that kind of labor.
Leaping forward in time, Abby, Sara’s granddaughter, a divorce lawyer in NYC, inherits her grandmother’s journals with notes in regards to the matches. She begins to query her personal profession selection and realizes perhaps the journals weren’t the one factor she inherited. Does her happiness lie in her present legislation job or ought to she observe in her grandmother’s footsteps and make the most of her personal matchmaking instinct?
Magical Realism and Cross-Generational Story
With a little bit of magical realism, twin timelines, engrossing tales of compelling girls from totally different generations, humor and Yiddish phrases right here and there, Lynda Loigman has give you an ideal mixture to shine a lightweight on girls’s struggles wrapped up in a heartfelt, nicely written novel. The Matchmaker’s Reward is full of heat emotions of comforting Jewish heritage, love, hope and alternative, all rolled into an enormous hug from outdated New York… simply what I wanted!
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It’s by no means too late for brand spanking new beginnings in The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern.
On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs — an energetic senior group in southern Florida — she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the supply boy from her father’s outdated pharmacy — and the person who broke her coronary heart sixty years earlier.
As a youngster rising up in 1920’s Brooklyn, Augusta’s function mannequin was her father, Solomon Stern, the trusted proprietor of the native pharmacy and the neighborhood skilled on each ailment. However when Augusta’s mom dies and Nice Aunt Esther strikes in, Augusta can’t assist however be drawn to Esther’s curious strategies. As a healer herself, Esther presents Solomon’s prospects her personal recommendation — unconventional treatments starting from do-it-yourself rooster soup to a mysterious array of powders and potions.
An Elixir With Disastrous Penalties
As Augusta prepares for pharmacy faculty, she is torn between loyalty to her father and fascination together with her nice aunt, all whereas navigating a budding however sophisticated relationship with Irving. Determined for readability, she impulsively makes use of Esther’s most potent elixir with disastrous penalties. Disillusioned and alone, Augusta vows to reject Esther’s enchantments perpetually.
Sixty years later, confronted with Irving, Augusta remains to be haunted by the errors of her previous. What occurred all these years in the past and the way did her plan go so spectacularly improper? Did Irving ever actually love her or was he merely enjoying an element? And may Augusta reclaim the magic of her youth earlier than it’s too late?
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