The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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 mother s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she s privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father s detachment, her mother s transgression, her brother s increasing retreat from the world. But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can t discern.