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==General fiction==
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|author=Aimee Bender
|title=The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title of this novel first caught my eye. How can food feel emotions?
Actually, it is Rose who discovers that when she is eating she can taste the feelings of the person who cooked or prepared the food. I was a bit worried that this initial gimmick of the book from which the title is taken would become annoying, but really this is another very well-written and readable novel about growing up in a dysfunctional family. Rose is about to turn 9 at the beginning, and comes home to find her mother making her birthday cake. She can't resist tasting the cake, and at first it is delicious: 'Warm citrus-baked batter lightness enfolded by cool deep dark swirled sugar'. But then she has 'the sensation of shrinking, of upset, tasting a distance I somehow knew was connected to my mother'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953827X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mischa Hiller
