Format:
Book
Title:
The particular sadness of lemon cake : a novel / Aimee Bender.
Author:
Bender, Aimee, author.
Call Number:
FIC BENDER A
Edition:
First Anchor books edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Anchor Books, 2011.
Description:
292 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein 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 slice. She discovers that her mother tastes of despair, as she uncovers family secrets.
Subjects:
Taste -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Emotions -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Food -- Fiction.
Coming of age stories.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
ISBN:
9780385720960
0385720963