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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender
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This has a really unique premise and I have it on my to-read list for my GoodReads Best Books Challenge but I may not get to it in 2016. Still, I'll be eagerly awaiting your thoughts.I did consider reading it for my food/drink in the title book but decided to read a memoir instead because I didn't want challenge books overlapping.
I have this marked for a 2016 challenge (not this one though). It's a challenge with only books that were recommended to me. Not books I picked myself. I'm a little nervous about this book though since the rating is so low.
It was a GoodReads Best Book in June of 2010 so maybe it's better than the rating suggest? Fingers crossed! :)
I have this on my list for week 47. When I read the blurb I thought that sounds interesting lets see if I can work it into next years challenge.
This sounds both bizarre and interesting...
I read this book a few years ago. I loved the title, the cover and the premise. And then the book just went in this totally bizarre direction. Everyone in my book club disliked it, but we definitely had spirited discussion over it. And we got to eat lemon cake. I'll be interested to see whether you guys enjoy it more than we did.
I'm in the mood of rescucitating old topics today ;)What did the people who read it think of it?
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
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.