Summary Of Elie Wiesel's 'The Pie Hole'

15 years, 14 weeks, 5 days and 44 minutes later, heretofore known as Now, Young Sigrid became ‘The Pie-Maker’, opening her own bakery, complete with a pie-crust roof and aptly named ‘The Pie Hole’. It was her sanctuary, a place where her gift of mysterious origin and dangerous consequence could do some good. No fruit ever went to waste in the Pie-Maker’s hand, but would retain its ripe flavour forever more, so long as she did not touch it again. When asked what it was that gave the fruit pies their fresh and flavoursome appeal, the Pie-Maker would shrug with a modest smile and simply said that it was her late mother’s recipes that made all the difference.
People seemed content to accept that answer, too absorbed in devouring the perfectly
“And can we not refer to them as “undead” either? It’s a horrible way to describe someone. Nobody wants to be un-anything. The living Dead doesn’t really work either. It implies that the person is both living and dead at the same time, but that’s just confusing. You should be either alive or dead, not both at once.”

Tauriel put her fork down very deliberately. “What do you call it?”

“Well, alive-again is a nicer way to put it.” Sigrid suggested.

“Then alive-again it is.” Tauriel went back to eating her pie.

There are some things you just can’t share without ending up liking each other, and keeping a secret like the power to make people alive-again is one of them.

For a while their partnership operated without a hitch. Tauriel brought Sigrid on as an ‘expert’, and together they solved crime after crime. Tauriel was soon rewarded with the rank of Captain, and the Pie Hole was never short of Police Officers with a penchant for sweet pastries.

But alas, when the Pie-Maker was exactly 24 years, 13 weeks, 1 day and 47 minutes old, everything changed again.

She was in the kitchen baking tomorrow’s strawberry pie with the television on in the background when she heard the evening