04750cam a2201021 4500 534752480 TxGeo 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385533225 0385533225 B0036S4BVM Amazon 005b3807-06e6-4515-9752-1cbecb5a0a30 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11231 11231 11231 345179 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Bender, Aimee. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. family. relationships. Friendship. literary fiction. road trip. of. romance. beach. sisters. parenting. mom. contemporary fiction. baby. Fiction. novels. marriage. love. Coming of age. Identity. Death. feminist. women. pregnancy. romantic. mystery. Drama. Women's Fiction. Divorce. art. magical realism. Sadness. Girl. twin. grief. gifts. Contemporary Romance. feminism. Magic. twins. Chick Lit. literature. fiction books. fantasy. Literary. realistic fiction. gifts for women. gifts for her. realistic fiction books. women gifts. books fiction. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2527kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> <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 /> <b>BONUS:</b> This edition includes an excerpt from Aimee Bender's <i>The Color Master</i>. Media Type: eBook. Alex Award. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 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) QS5