{"id":19660,"date":"2022-12-06T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19660"},"modified":"2022-12-06T08:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:43:20","slug":"book-50-of-52-the-book-of-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/book-50-of-52-the-book-of-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 50 (of 52) &#8211; The Book Of Lost And Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19662\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bookoflostandfound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19662\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19662\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bookoflostandfound.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bookoflostandfound.jpg 333w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bookoflostandfound-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Book of Lost and Found &#8211; Lucy Foley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When her adoptive grandmother lets slip a family secret just prior to her death, a young photographer goes off in search for her mother&#8217;s birth mother.\u00a0 The search takes her to Corsica, where she meets a famous artist who knew her grandmother in her youth, and, ultimately, to New York to meet her grandmother.\u00a0 Along the way, she learns her family&#8217;s history and the struggles each side went through.<\/p>\n<p>Early <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/book-5-of-52-the-guest-list\/\">last year<\/a>, I had my first exposure to Lucy Foley&#8217;s work.\u00a0 I expected more of the same from <em>The Book of Lost and Found<\/em>, her debut novel.\u00a0 Instead, I found a different kind of mystery, one which delved into family dynamics and the impact World War II had on both the French and the English.\u00a0 The ending could be seen from a mile away, so if that is your judgement criteria, this one might not be for you.\u00a0 But the journey to get to that ending made this one a worthwhile endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When her adoptive grandmother lets slip a family secret just prior to her death, a young photographer goes off in search for her mother&#8217;s birth mother.\u00a0 The search takes her to Corsica, where she meets a famous artist who knew her grandmother in her youth, and, ultimately, to New York to meet her grandmother.\u00a0 Along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9294,10243],"class_list":["post-19660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-lucy-foley","tag-the-book-of-lost-and-found"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19667,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19660\/revisions\/19667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}