Helpful Score: 7
Eight (and soon to be nine) year old Rose has a peculiar relationship with food. She cannot simply eat food and enjoy it, because she tastes the emotions of the person who prepared the food. When her mother prepares a lemon cake from scratch for her birthday, the sad taste of the cake exposes her young heart and mind to truths about her parents that she is not ready for.
As Rose struggles to live with her odd condition, the rest of her family faces their own challenges as well: her father seems awkward in his parental role, her mother is restless and feels that something is missing from her life though she does not know what, and her elder brother Joseph is brilliant but unable to fit in with the rest of society.
Aimee Bender manages to take a fanciful premise and make it into a believable and emotional story. She immerses you into the surreal world of Rose in a way that does not make the reader question whether or not such a thing is possible; Bender writes so convincingly that you accept that it is as she says. Highly recommended.
As Rose struggles to live with her odd condition, the rest of her family faces their own challenges as well: her father seems awkward in his parental role, her mother is restless and feels that something is missing from her life though she does not know what, and her elder brother Joseph is brilliant but unable to fit in with the rest of society.
Aimee Bender manages to take a fanciful premise and make it into a believable and emotional story. She immerses you into the surreal world of Rose in a way that does not make the reader question whether or not such a thing is possible; Bender writes so convincingly that you accept that it is as she says. Highly recommended.
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