The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeBy: Aimee Bender 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 mothers emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, shes privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her fathers detachment, her mothers transgression, her brothers increasing retreat from the

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But far more drastic than 13 year-old Ethel Leatherhead intended when she tried a combination of untested medicines and a sunbed

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Our Missing Hearts comes a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives

For twenty-five years

the alphabet

No helium-filled

Princess Sue sits in a tower

Sarah Yoder returns home to Promise Glen determined to make a fresh start

recorded in his secret diary

claiming his violence was over the top

revealing a shattering secret that reaches back nearly a century

a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois