The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel

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 motherâ€™s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her motherâ€™s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her motherâ€”her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do motherâ€”tastes 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 hiddenâ€”her motherâ€™s life outside the home, her fatherâ€™s detachment, her brotherâ€™s 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 Benderâ€™s place as â€œa writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of languageâ€ (San Francisco Chronicle).
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2010-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385501125

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2010-06-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385501125

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel

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