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Join Anne Crystal’s Brown Bag Book Club for our next read: The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman.
The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman is a dual-timeline historical novel inspired by the author’s own family. It follows Chana Rosenzweig in 1946 Vienna — a 19-year-old Holocaust survivor working as a hotel dishwasher who secretly bakes her late father’s recipes by night — and her great-niece Zoe in 2018, who begins unraveling family secrets after her grandfather’s death. Chana must decide between a black marketeer who offers her family protection and an apprentice baker who shares her passion, all while clinging to her dream of one day opening a bakery of her own. At its heart, it’s a story of survival, love, and the enduring bonds of family in the difficult aftermath of war.