2011: #38 – The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender)

Book #38 was The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. The back of the book read: 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

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