BOOK REPORT TUESDAY

"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" by Aimee Bender
Product Description(Amazon.com)
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.
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (April 19, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385720963
ISBN-13: 978-0385720960

MY THOUGHTS: I want to say I probably never would have read this book if not for the reading challenge I'm doing called Follow the Blurb. But I'm so glad I did read it. It's a wonderful book and kept me glued to the pages for 3 days. I just couldn't put it down. I wanted to find out all about Rose and her family. Rose's gift or curse of being able to get feelings of other people from the food she eats is sometimes good and other times it's heartbreaking. The story follows Rose and her family through childhood to adulthood. With all the things families do. School, sports, and family discussions. Rose soon learns which foods she can eat without being bombarded by other people's feelings. She mostly lives on vending machine foods. And then one night a dinner Rose gets a secret about her mother. Should she tell or keep it to herself? To find out what the secret is, you'll have to read the book. I really recommend this book, it's really good.

MY RATING: 5