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.