04750cam a2200997 4500 583501384 TxAuBib 20220519120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385533225 0385533225 B0036S4BVM Amazon 005b3807-06e6-4515-9752-1cbecb5a0a30 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 345179 OverDrive (Product ID) 11231 11231 11231 TxAuBib Bender, Aimee. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2540kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. realistic fiction books. contemporary fiction. Contemporary Romance. funny office gifts. realistic fiction. literary fiction. Women's Fiction. magical realism. gifts for women. relationships. Coming of age. fiction books. gifts for her. books fiction. women gifts. Friendship. literature. road trip. Chick Lit. marriage. Identity. feminist. romantic. feminism. Literary. romance. sisters. Fiction. mystery. Divorce. Sadness. fantasy. family. novels. beach. Death. women. Drama. grief. gifts. Magic. twins. baby. love. Girl. twin. mom. art. of. HTML:<b>The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.</b><br /> <br /> On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, 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 cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, 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.<br /> <br /> The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s 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.<br /> <br /> <i>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</i> 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 Bender’s place as “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language” (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>).<br /> <br /> <b>BONUS:</b> This edition includes an excerpt from Aimee Bender's <i>The Color Master</i>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Alex Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-17 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/005/B38/07/ParticularSadnessofLemonCakeANovel9780385533225.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=005B3807-06E6-4515-9752-1CBECB5A0A30&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/005/B38/07/ParticularSadnessofLemonCakeANovel9780385533225.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=005B3807-06E6-4515-9752-1CBECB5A0A30&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/005/B38/07/ParticularSadnessofLemonCakeANovel9780385533225.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=005B3807-06E6-4515-9752-1CBECB5A0A30&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)