As the two women commune through their letters, they build a closeness that sustains them through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the unexpected in their own lives.įood and a good life-they can’t be separated. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she’s never tasted fresh garlic-exotic fare in the Northwest of the sixties. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter-as well as a gift of saffron-to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins.

Please Welcome D.F.In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road and Meet Me at the Museum, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine.

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Great quote: 'loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone but about what happens when you are with others.' I'd give it a five but I was really put off by Simone. It was intense and a perfect blend of history and fantasy and heart-stopping moments. The tension mounts as they continue to argue and though they are working together, they are also racing against each other. Simone wants the scrolls to start a revolution. There's angry tribemen, a dying man,government officials needing to be bought, drug use, arguments, the jungle, secrets of the past unveiled, and all the while Irene comes to realize a stunning moral: You can spend the rest of your life always searching and wanting more or you can be happy with your life as it is.

It's ancient history, and valuable in so many ways.Įnter Marc, Simone, Louis, and numerous other people as the journey commences from Shanghai to Cambodia. She has one chance to take the world by storm: find some copper scrolls in Cambodia. But instead of being named the next curator, she's cast out.all because she is a woman. Irene is a young woman who has spent years making a museum all it can be, silently permitting a man to take all the credit, knowing one day her time will come. This is a story that is a blend of historical fiction, greed, determination, women making waves, anger, finger-pointing, and tied with an ending that just left me sitting there with my mouth hanging open.

The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay