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The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake (2010)

by Aimee Bender(Favorite Author)

3.15 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385501129 (ISBN13: 9780385501125)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

review 1: The Particular Sadness of Lemon cake opens with 9 year old Rose realizing that she has the ability to taste the emotions in her food of the person who prepared it. Aimee Bender did a solid job of setting up the story of Rose's troubled family in a believable way, despite Rose's unbelievable talent. As the story progresses the magical melds with the mundane in other ways related to the family. Accepting this more-than-a-touch of magic is makes this otherwise typical troubled-family-drama stand out from the crowd.
review 2: A very sad tale about kids with the kinds of emotional superpowers kids pick up living in crazy, damaged families (excessive empathy, hyper-vigilance and the ability to disappear, metaphorically or otherwise). Life in the Edelstein family f... moreelt startlingly familiar, which made this novel difficult to read. Ultimately it was a good read, cathartic and psychologically stimulating. (Some funny echoes of Margaret Atwood's "Edible Woman".) less

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