At some point, Joseph lets out his long hidden secrets to Sage, until she gets to know that she did not cross paths with Joseph by accident. Joseph Weber, a retired German teacher, joins the grief counselling group which Sage attends. We later come to realise that, no matter how much Minka lost during the war, she never lost her hope. It gives her a purpose to live and pull through one more day. Her characters resemble her real life and everyone who listens to her story wants to know more of it. Minka’s life makes us cringe at the sins committed against humanity. Until one day, when she lets out every detail of her struggle as a Jew. But Minka never opens up about her war-time memories. Minka, Sage’s grandmother, a holocaust survivor, a lesser known writer, who believes there is good in every bad, tries to give strength to Sage. She battles her low self-esteem, but when an affair crops up with a married man, she does not think twice but convinces herself that she can never expect anything better. She would give anything to go back to that one accident to bring back her mother and make things as before. She takes up a job that lets her bake in the nights, when no one can take a second look at her face or her scar. Sage Singer, a baker, lives in the shadows and tries to hide away from everyone. This book is about everything from haunting memories, loses and sacrifices, to rising from the ashes. One such book is The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. A few books leave an impact on us like no other.
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