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“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.”
Taken from Amazon.
See also:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127475483
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7048800-the-particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/06/entertainment/la-ca-aimee-bender-20100606
http://www.flammableskirt.com/
The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at catalog of the library
(The) particular sadness of lemon cake / Aimee Bender. —London (UK) : Windmill Books, 2010.
325 pages ; 20cm
ISBN 978-0-099-53286-4
PS3552.E538447 P3 2010
R. 201162005
