Aimee Bender on her novel "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"

 Host Erik Jorgensen interviews writer Aimee Bender, author of the acclaimed novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. The book tells the story of a nine year old girl who 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. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat.

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