The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
of Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author)
Description
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parentsâ attention, bites into her motherâs homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her motherâs emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her motherâher cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do motherâtastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hiddenâher motherâs life outside the home, her fatherâs detachment, her brotherâs clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Benderâs place as âa writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of languageâ (San Francisco Chronicle).
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 292 pages
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Date June 1st 2010
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780385501125
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Los Angeles, California (United States)']
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