"Nothing links person to person like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book."

This story is pretty interesting -- a 9-yr-old girl finds out that she can taste her mother's emotions by eating a slice of lemon-chocolate cake. This leads Rose to learn more about her mother, father, and brother than she was meant to know.

A wandering book -- the karma of literature!

Handed off in person to powaybabe at Knitting Night.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I got it from my sister and didn't expect much, but it was well written, I really liked the author's style of writing and the character development. Rose was a great narrator. The premise was that Rose could tell everything about the person(s) who produced the food just by eating it. So soon she was feeling her mother's pain/sadness/infidelity/guilt, a restaurant chef's anger/love/resentment, even where the food originated, such as a factory, an organic farm, a location. Rose also experiences her father's detachment and her older brother's increasing retreat/withdrawal from the world, during this time. The style reminded me a little of Alice Hoffman. I recommend this book.

I am passing this book on to a friend today. I enjoyed it a lot.