Fanny’s Reviews > The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake > Status Update

I don´t understand, with a father who can potentially cure sick people, why are his children either a chair or a dishwasher who can´t possibly imagine doing something else with her power.

"And have you ever? Gone in? I said.
Nah, he said."

.- This novel in a nutshell.

Why is the author revealing the potentially superpower of the Ddad... just twenty pages to go... this novel is all over the place... help...

"What a family", her dad says... ok... WHAT ARE WE AS A FAMILY GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!? We are clearly all having our own specific kind of depression...

This is not magical realism, not in the slightest. It is fantasy. Bad fantasy. Bad psychological fantasy drama.

Wait... he DOES find out... and his response is super weird. Honestly! This family is so weird!

Amazing how the author solved that George fling with two paragraphs on two different chapters. Amazed amazing.

What´s with the mom and the grandmother? They really resent each other, but I don´t know why, so there goes that idea!

Im finishing and I just realized that maybe we will never know what about the father and his weird detachment! It makes no sense!

I hate books where I have to fill spaces with big Maybes just because the author thinks all these plot (and emotional) holes make the novel more mysterious, more ambiguous, nearer to grasping the indefinite and consistent sadness of life. But no, the holes just make me care less about people I cannot understand, who seem to be in a kind of quiet despair that I can´t fully grasp as entirely necessary or real. Sorry!