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We are reading “Five Quarters of the Orange” by Joanna Harris

When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the
Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous
Mirabelle Dartigen ‐ the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible
tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before.
Although Framboise hopes for a new beginning, she quickly discovers
that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth
more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from
her dead mother.

With this book, Framboise re‐creates her mother’s dishes, which she
serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook ‐
searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother’s
sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor ‐ she begins to
recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle’s cryptic scribbles. Within
the journal’s tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the
summer Framboise was nine years old.

To RSVP, or if you have any questions, please contact Nancy Berkenfeld at AdultEd@ckibbnj.org

Available on Audible, Kindle, Somerset County Library System, Libraries of Middlesex Consortium, and as an EBook on eLibraryNJ.