To Be Renamed... Book Club discussion

We will meet on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at Biddle's Escape (7:00 - 9:00 pm) to discuss Aimee Bender's 2010 novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.

From the Goodreads' description:

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, 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 cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother — her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother — tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.

The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them.

Bonus points to anyone who brings lemon cake to our meeting. (And, again, "bonus points" mean we will be very grateful. We're all poor, so there's no financial gain or award. But who doesn't like cake!?)

If you cannot make the meeting on the 26th, feel free to share your thoughts here so we can include them in our meeting!