The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
By Lynda Cohen Loigman
★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10
336 pages
What’s it about?
This work of historical fiction goes back and forth in time from 1920s Brooklyn to a retirement home in South Florida in the late 1980s. Augusta Stern is about to turn 80 when she retires to Florida and runs into an old acquaintance from the past. He takes her memories right back to Brooklyn.
What did it make me think about?
How central pharmacies once were to a community and how difficult it was for women to work outside the home.
Should I read it?
This was a sweet story about a lost love. It takes you back to a different era and that is always interesting. FYI- this book is all about the characters and is less plot-driven.
A passage I marked
"That was the nice thing about spending time with a person you'd known for almost all your life- the memories you shared grew even more vivid when you remembered them together."
