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Writing and publishing both novels and short-story collections to considerable praise, Aimee Bender is here with The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday), a novel that gives a nine-year-old girl's view of the world, a sudden knowing that affects how she'll know and live the rest of her life. "Taking her very personal brand of pessimistic magical realism to new heights, Bender's second novel careens splendidly through an obstacle course of pathological, fantastical neuroses. Bender's narrator is young, needy Rose Edelstein, who can literally taste the emotions of whoever prepares her food, giving her unwanted insight into other people's secret emotional lives—including her mother's, whose lemon cake betrays a deep dissatisfaction ... Bender has been called a fabulist, but emerges as more of a spelunker of the human soul; carefully burrowing through her characters' layered disorders and abilities, Bender plumbs an emotionally crippled family with power and authenticity ... this coming-of-age story makes a bittersweet dish, brimming with a zesty, beguiling talent." - Publishers Weekly. Aimee Bender's story collections are The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures, and her earlier novel is An Invisble Sign of My Own.
