The Sweetness of Forgetting. [signed]

SIGNED - First thus- a trade paperback. A 10th anniversary updated and expanded edition of Harmel's classic novel which follows a woman who travels from Cape Cod to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother. "At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her, and her bank account is nearly depleted. She's running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen. Now, Hope's beloved French-born grandmother Mamie is drifting away in a haze of Alzheimer's. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about the past, the secrets she has held on to for so many years will soon be lost forever. Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in WWII Paris. Armed with a scrawled list of names, Hope heads to France to uncover a seventy-year-old mystery with roots in the Nazi occupation. Uncovering horrific tales of the Holocaust, Hope realizes the astonishing will of her grandmother to endure in a world gone mad." SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy!" 349 pp plus a new author's note, recipes and an excerpt from her next novel 'The Paris Daughter.' Fine in illustrated wrappers. Uncommon signed.