Rose Edelstein's mom worked in an office for years to help pay her husband's school fees. Now that they are paid off, she quits and immerses herself in new projects. She's planted strawberries, she takes up construction -- putting a door in her son Joseph's room, she takes vintage lace and creates doilies and she takes up baking a cake from scratch.
For Rose's ninth birthday, her mom has made a lemon cake with chocolate frosting. On first taste, it is scrumptious, but the longer it lingers on her tongue, the taste changes. Rose begins to taste emotions. And so it begins, anything that Rose eats, she tastes emotions and learns secrets that she probably would rather not know.
Aimee Bender has penned a remarkable tale with a creative gift and flair. Their is humor, sadness, and it is profoundly page turning. You won't want to miss this one!
From Booklist
Eating the cake her mother has prepared for her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein discovers she has a gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the food she prepares. Soon, every bite Rose takes is filled with feelings—not just her mother’s but those of other people as well—and what might have been a gift becomes a burden and then, perhaps, a curse. Because this is a novel rooted in family, Rose will learn that she is not the only Edelstein with a peculiar gift or burden. How she and others learn to cope—or not, as the case may be—is the small, sad story Rose shares.
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