The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

On the eve of ther ninth birthday, 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. All at once cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal.