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In Valérie Perrin’s “Forgotten on Sunday,” Justine Neige, a 21-year old aide at a nursing home hardly knows anything about her family’s history. Raised by her grandparents (her mother and father died in a car crash), they never liked to talk about the past. If Justine doesn’t have a history, the residents of the nursing home help fill the gap. She loves to listen to their stories, reveling in their adventures, their past loves, and their careers. She is especially taken by Hélène Hel, who reveals that her lover disappeared sometime during World War II. Justine begins to record Hélène’s story, but in learning about regret and loss, she finds inspiration to confront what really happened to her parents. As always, Perrin surprises in her explorations of buried family secrets. -Anne M