Book Spotlight & Giveaway: The Lost Family by Jenna Blum

Earlier this week, Jenna Blums’ latest novel, The Lost Family, was published and to celebrate, I
am helping the publisher get the word out. I will be reading this book and sharing my review soon.  I also have 1 copy of the book to giveaway – be sure to read all the way to the bottom of the post for details!

Title: The Lost Family

Author: Jenna Blum

Published: June 2018, HarperCollins

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages

Summary:

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.

What readers are saying: 

“An unsentimental, richly detailed study of loss and its legacy.”–Kirkus Reviews

“This
exquisitely crafted and compassionate novel offers a lesson in honesty,
regardless of how difficult the truth may be. It will offer plenty of
discussion for book groups.”–Library Journal

“In…this
gripping novel, Blum…displays her keen eye for character…Each
unforgettable character in this deeply moving novel brings new meaning
to the familiar phrase “never forget.” Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to
Dance (2009) and Michael Chabon’s Moonglow (2016) also share.. a sense
of hope in the face of tragic loss.”–Booklist

“Jenna Blum shines a powerful light on how the past swings back and how we must face it. The Lost Family
is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and
smile, the kind that gives you hope….  It is compassionate, masterful
and disturbingly contemporary.”–Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarah’s Key

“I was spellbound from the start of The Lost Family.
The writing is so smart and empathetic…. This is a dazzling novel of
great compassion, honestly reckoning with the time-and-place-spanning
ripple effect of great pain as well as love.”–Laura Moriarty, New York Times best-selling author of The Chaperone

“Deftly executed, deeply moving, and full of heart, Jenna Blum’s The Lost Family is an evocative look at the legacy of war and how it impacts one memorable family.”–Jami Attenberg, bestselling author of The Middlesteins 

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Giveaway Details — (US Only) 

Thanks to the publicist, one reader will win a copy of The Lost Family by Jenna Blum. To enter the giveaway, please fill out the rafflecopter by June 15th.

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This giveaway is open to US residents only and ends June 15th.

Good Luck!!!