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The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.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 cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother?her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother?tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden?her mother?s life outside the home, her father?s detachment, her brother?s clash wi