Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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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. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal.
R...
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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. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal.
R...
