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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
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Why I Love It
By Christine Zikas
One of the most well-loved romantic tropes is when two characters reconnect with their first love. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern tells such a story—but it is so much more than that.
Eighty-year-old Augusta, a trained pharmacist, has finally been forced to retire. Beyond the culture shock of moving from New York to Florida, she finds her first love Irving living at the same assisted living facility. We travel back in time to 1920s Brooklyn as Augusta recounts not only her budding relationship with her pharmacist father’s delivery boy, but also her memories of the aunt who raised her. An aunt with special knowledge of herbs and potions and teas, which not only had healing properties, but seemed to conjure magic as well.
I loved this story largely because I loved Augusta, the younger and the elder. She is no-nonsense, smart, insightful, but also curious about the world and wanting to do her very best. She came to life for me as someone I would want for a best friend. I loved spending this time in her worlds—both the practical, scientific pharmaceutical world and the healing world of nature. I found this book comforting to the very last page.
By Christine Zikas
One of the most well-loved romantic tropes is when two characters reconnect with their first love. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern tells such a story—but it is so much more than that.
Eighty-year-old Augusta, a trained pharmacist, has finally been forced to retire. Beyond the culture shock of moving from New York to Florida, she finds her first love Irving living at the same assisted living facility. We travel back in time to 1920s Brooklyn as Augusta recounts not only her budding relationship with her pharmacist father’s delivery boy, but also her memories of the aunt who raised her. An aunt with special knowledge of herbs and potions and teas, which not only had healing properties, but seemed to conjure magic as well.
I loved this story largely because I loved Augusta, the younger and the elder. She is no-nonsense, smart, insightful, but also curious about the world and wanting to do her very best. She came to life for me as someone I would want for a best friend. I loved spending this time in her worlds—both the practical, scientific pharmaceutical world and the healing world of nature. I found this book comforting to the very last page.
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August 28, 2024
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