The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender | 292 pages
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.
One of the strangest books I've ever read. So much left unresolved in so many relationships. Plus, the "magic" doesn't really make sense, especially Joseph's. I didn't like this novel much.
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