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The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender
Category: Fiction
______________________________________ '[A] compact surrealist memory box of a novel . . . Its particular quality of stillness hums with so much mystery and intensity that the book never feels static . . . ' New York Times 'The Butterfly Lampshade is an unflinching, empathetic portrayal of a childhood t ...Show more
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Category: Fiction
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 slice. She discovers this ...Show more
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: The heartwarming Richard and Judy Book Club favourite by Aimee Bender
Category: Fiction
The wondrous Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" is a luminous tale--heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad.
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