This cute novel, The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Coen Loigman could be shelved in the Romance section of the library. It is a fun lighthearted novel about losing love and finding it again a a senior citizen.
Augusta Stern is turning eighty years old and is relocating to a senior housing development in Florida at the suggestion of her daughter. Surprisingly one morning as se goes out to swim her laps, she runs into someone from her past.
Irving Rivkin was the delivery boy for her father's pharmacy so many years ago, and he was the boy woh broke her heart. Of course old feelings reemerge and Augusta finds herself trying to figure out what went wrong so many years ago. Did she make a mistake or did she just read the situation wrong?
During the intervening years, Augusta followed in her father's footsteps becoming a pharmacist. But back in her twenties, she was intrigued by her Great Aunt Esther, who was a healer. When customers were healed by thhe pharmacist's medications, they would secretly visit Aunt Esther for a different kind of healing. Augusta secretly tried to find out what unorthodox methods her aunt was using to help people. When she tries to use one of Esther's powerful elixirs herself disastrous results, she promises never to use them again.
Now she and Irving are elderly and Augusta wonders if it is too late to find love and happiness.
You must suspend your need for realistic storytelling and give into thhe possibility of fantasy and magical realisim.
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