The particularly wonderful Aimee Bender

Reading Aimee Bender’s writing is like eating sugar that is good for you. Her work is known for its pop and sparkle – pick up any of her short stories and you’ll immediately see her talent– but beneath the surface are characters so authentic and flawed you’ll swear you’ve met them somewhere. In her new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, 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 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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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Hardcover)

By Aimee Bender

$25.95

ISBN-13: 9780385501125
Availability: Usually ships from warehouse in 1 - 5 days
Published: Doubleday, 6/2010

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