The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

by Aimee Bender

and I just watched the houses and stores slip by on Fairfax, fwip, fwip, momentarily in view, then gone.

I no longer wanted to advertise my experience to anyone. You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

dutifully answering the questions at the back of the chapter before I’d read the chapter. It was so easy to locate the sentence referenced in the question, and I plugged in the appropriate lines like a good little lab rat,

That it was graduation day seemed notable. The very beginnings of the fork.