The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender • 2010
Devastation Rating
family literary fiction loss mental health
Our Take
A girl discovers she can taste the emotions of whoever prepared her food, and suddenly the family meal becomes a horror. Bender uses magical realism not for wonder but for the specific dread of knowing too much about the people closest to you. The family's secrets are worse than she imagined, and she cannot unknow them.
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