The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
By: Aimee Bender
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Thorndike Press large print reviewers choice; Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
Publisher: Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit [Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781410430649
Subjects: Taste; Family secrets; Fiction; Large type books
Description: "On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attentions, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. But her gift is no blessing, 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."--P. [4] of cover.