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The particular sadness of lemon cake
Record details
- ISBN: 0385501129 :
- ISBN: 9780385501125
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Physical Description:
292 p. ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2010.
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| Subject: | Family secrets Fiction Taste Fiction |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 1 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | BENDE A (Text) | 33126011444316 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | BENDE A (Text) | 33126022069557 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/14/2024 |
- Baker & Taylor
Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities. - Baker & Taylor
Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities. By the Pushcart-winning author ofAn Invisible Sign of My Own . - Random House, Inc.
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 parentsâ attention, bites into her motherâs homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her motherâs emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her motherâher cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do motherâtastes 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 hiddenâher motherâs life outside the home, her fatherâs detachment, her brotherâs 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 Benderâs place as âa writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of languageâ (San Francisco Chronicle).