This is out of character for her as she usually avoids people. Sage finds herself striking up a conversation with the man. She recognises him from the grief group, he is a German man called Josef Weber. An elderly man and his dog often come in into the cafe area of the bakery late in the day when Sage arrives for her shift. Sage is a member of a grief group, a support group for people who are struggling to cope after losing someone in their lives. Which she continues despite realising deep inside that it is wrong because she believes that she doesn’t deserve any better. We find that Sage is also having an affair with the local married mortician.
Sage likes the job because it enables her to avoid facing people and when she does she wears her long hair over her face to hide her scars.
She works as a baker at night for a local bakery run by an ex-nun Mary. Sage’s parents both died within a few years of each other and she is estranged from her sisters. Sage is a young woman who tries to hide after she suffered facially disfiguring scars in an accident which we are initially not told the cause of. In the present we are introduced to Sage Summer. To make matters worse there is some kind of monster terrorising the village where she lives. She struggles to survive after her father dies and she takes on his bakery to be able to live. In the vignettes we hear from a young adult named Amina, who lives in the past. The book is told from varying viewpoints, inter-spaced with vignettes of another story. The Storyteller Jodi Picoult: Detailed Description They see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t.
When Josef Weber begins to stop by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape her loneliness, bad memories and her mother’s death.
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