The particular sadness of lemon cake [large print] /Aimee Bender.
By: Bender, Aimee.
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BookSeries: Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice: Publisher: Detroit, [Mich.] : Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning, 2010Edition: Large print ed.Description: 399 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781410430649 (lg. print); 1410430642 (lg. print).Subject(s): Taste -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Large type booksGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Bildungsromans.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: "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.
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"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.
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