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IT'S early morning in Los Angeles when Aimee Bender answers the phone. The weather is still turn-of-the-year cool, not yet the warm days of March when Rose Edelstein, the heroine of her new novel, The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, celebrates her ninth birthday.
Rose's birthday cake brings an unwelcome surprise, a taste not only of lemons and chocolate frosting but of "smallness, the sensation of shrinking, of upset ... a hollowness". Her mother had made it, and in it she tastes her mother's loneliness.See the full content of this document
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Thrill of the Literary Bender
"I had been interested for a while in the idea of putting more into food than just food," says Bender, thoughtfully. "I'm really interested in the dynamic between people. Almost every social interaction has food in it, so maybe food co...
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