The Sweetness of Forgetting

by Kristin Harmel

It’s September, a week and a half after Labor Day,

which in the little towns up and down Cape Cod means

the tourists have gone home, the Bostonians have boarded up their summer ...

Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and sliced into narrow slivers

Strudel recipe

“I will take you across a great sea to see a queen whose torch illuminates the world, keeping all of her subjects safe and free.”

ancient-looking butcher shops and bookstores, blended with modern clothing stores and cafés.

I think he may be working at his bakery? Just an idea.

The air smells ever so faintly like the buttery, cinnamon-scented, fig-and-prune-filled Star Pies I bake every day.

I knew it!

In our religion, we are taught, ‘Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world.’ ”

Alain makes a strange strangled sound. “In the Talmud, it is written, ‘If you save one life, it is as if you have saved the world,’ ”