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Editorial content for The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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Harvey Freedenberg
There's a tendency for many of us to think of the family as a rock of stability and sanity in a world filled with turmoil. That's why it takes an artist like Aimee Bender to remind us of the fragility of a structure that's sometimes more like a sandcastle than the brick edifice it may appear to outsiders. She's carried that off with grace and subtlety in her gently perceptive second novel. Read More
Teaser
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming 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.
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On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming 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.
About the Book
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming 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. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she's privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father's detachment, her mother's transgression, her brother's increasing retreat from the world. But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can't discern.
David Sedaris
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Attribution
David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
April 19, 2011
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