Bender, Aimee.
The particular sadness of lemon cake / Aimee Bender. - London : Windmill Books, 2011. - 325 p. ; 20 cm.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein 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 slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous.
9780099538264 (pbk.) 009953827X (pbk.)
Taste--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
813.54 / BEN 2011
The particular sadness of lemon cake / Aimee Bender. - London : Windmill Books, 2011. - 325 p. ; 20 cm.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein 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 slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous.
9780099538264 (pbk.) 009953827X (pbk.)
Taste--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
813.54 / BEN 2011