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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
by Aimee Bender
Published: 2010-06-01
Hardcover: 304 pages
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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 parents? attention, bites into her mother's...
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents? attention, bites into her mother's...
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(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 parents? attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother?her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother?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 hidden?her mother's life outside the home, her father's detachment, her brother'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 Bender's place as ?a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language? (San Francisco Chronicle).
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by Bak8382 (see profile) 07/26/10Member Reviews
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"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel"by dmbuscher (see profile) 08/31/10
ok so it did hold me until the end, thinking, at some point the author will let me know the point of all of this. maybe i missed it! wouldn't recommend
"Bizarre"by red2252 (see profile) 08/30/10
This book was fairly well written but seemed disjointed. It was a combination of two different sci-fi or fantasy ideas which both could have made good books. Ultimately it was depressing, I would have... (read more)
"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"by Deneen (see profile) 08/27/10
This book was so bad I couldn't finish it!
"the particular sadness of lemon cake"by redrose (see profile) 08/23/10
I enjoyed this book, even though it was rather sad. It shows how family members become isolated from each other because they don't communicate. For instance, if Rose had told her father about her ability... (read more)
"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"by espicer (see profile) 08/22/10
The book is a quick read, but goes nowhere. There was so much more character development that was missed. The book began depressing and never gave any hope for any of the characters. The author missed... (read more)
"Confusing and story not tied together well!"by libroladies (see profile) 08/20/10
Our Book club hated this book. Too many unanswered questions, magic realism not explained well. Lots of holes in the story never defined or explained Thumbs down!
"Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"by amkessler (see profile) 08/11/10
This book kept me reading...wanted to find out more. But when I put the book down, I was left feeling a bit let down. It was definitely an easy read...and would be good for a short month.
