it’s the day before your ninth birthday and you mother is baking a practice birthday cake in preparation for tomorrow. you take your first bite and instead of tasting your all time favorite, lemon cake, you taste your mother’s sadness. thus begins a lifetime of being able to taste peoples emotions in the food that they prepare. imagine being able to taste your mother’s affair in the dinners she cooks, your brothers disappearance in the toast he fixes for you.
aimee bender has recently grabbed my attention and my heart. this was the first book of hers that i read and i am now on a huge bender kick.
by Zita
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