In the now, sheвЂ™s exhausted a laundry list of fertility options, from IVF treatments to adoption, and the silver lining is harder to find. Back then, QuinnвЂ™s bad breakup leads her to the love of her life.

The вЂњthen and nowвЂќ format-with alternating chapters moving back and forth in time-allows a hopeful romance to blossom within a dark but relatable dilemma. A few years later, they are happily married but struggling to conceive.

Quinn meets her future husband, Graham, in front of her soon-to-be-ex-fianceвЂ™s apartment, where Graham is about to confront him for having an affair with his girlfriend. Named for an imperfectly worded fortune cookie, Hoover's ( It Ends with Us, 2016, etc.) latest compares a womanвЂ™s relationship with her husband before and after she finds out sheвЂ™s infertile. Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. HannahвЂ™s proven storytelling skills are ideally suited to depicting such cataclysmic events, but her tendency to sentimentalize undermines the gravitas of this tale. Hannah vividly demonstrates how the Nazis, through starvation, intimidation and barbarity both casual and calculated, demoralized the French, engineering a community collapse that enabled the deportations and deaths of more than 70,000 Jews. Meanwhile, ViannвЂ™s journey from passive to active resistance is less dramatic but no less wrenching. Code-named the Nightingale, Isabelle will rescue many before she's captured. She joins the Resistance, volunteering for dangerous duty: shepherding downed Allied airmen across theВ Pyrenees to Spain. Beck, at Le Jardin-IsabelleвЂ™s outspokenness is a liability. Her long-estranged younger sister, Isabelle, who has been kicked out of multiple convent schools, is sent to Le Jardin by Julien, their father in Paris, a drunken, decidedly unpaternal Great War veteran.В As the depredations increase in the occupied zone-food rationing, systematic looting, and the billeting of a German officer, Capt. Soon, that world is upended: The Germans march into Paris and refugees flee south, overrunning ViannвЂ™s land. She returns to tending her small farm, Le Jardin, in the Loire Valley, teaching at the local school and coping with daughter SophieвЂ™s adolescent rebellion. Cut to spring, 1940: Viann has said goodbye to husband Antoine, who's off to hold the Maginot line against invading Germans. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. HannahвЂ™s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II.

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