Dani's Review:
Doris knows she is dying. All the people she has loved in her life have died, save one: her great-niece, Jenny, who lives half a world away from Sweden in San Francisco. But she is not without hope. She is determined to write down her life story for Jenny before she passes, so Doris spends her lonely hours thinking of her past and typing it out. The chapters jump between 96-year old Doris and her younger self, recounting the time she spends in Sweden, Paris, New York, England, and all points in between. She works as a maid and a model, experiences love and loss, and watches the world burn during WWII.

I was kept on the edge of my seat, not just as Doris recounted her younger-self's adventures, but also desperate to know if she would make it to the end of her story before her health failed. Would she find love? Would she ever see Jenny again?! I loved the emphasis that her story placed on all the different kinds of love Doris experienced throughout her life: romantic, familial, and platonic. The series of deep connections she describes portrays a life well-lived, even more than her achievements or the many places she sees.

This was a great read. I highly recommend it for book clubs and readers in the Sandwich Generation: "the generation of people, typically in their thirties or forties, responsible for bringing up their own children and for the care of their aging parents."

Saffron's Review:
This was a great read…I loved going back and forth between Doris’s past and current life.