Books like The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
On the eve of her ninth birthday in Los Angeles, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon cake and tastes her mother's despair, and from then on every bite of food tells her how the cook was feeling.
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Like Water for Chocolate
A woman forbidden to marry channels her passion into cooking that literally enchants those who eat it.
Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami's debut: in the summer of 1970, a college student home on break drinks beer with his friend the Rat at J's Bar, meets a girl with nine fingers and listens to the radio, learning how to be alone.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
The Bastard of Istanbul
Armanoush, an Armenian-American girl from Arizona, secretly visits her stepfather's family in Istanbul, a houseful of women, and befriends Asya, the illegitimate daughter of the youngest aunt.
Killing Commendatore
A portrait painter in a rural Japanese valley discovers a hidden painting and a mysterious pit, and both lead him towards a vanished man and the nature of inspiration.
Bless Me, Ultima
In a New Mexico village during the Second World War, six-year-old Antonio Márez comes of age under the eye of Ultima, an old curandera who comes to live with his family, while his mother hopes he will become a priest.
Milk Fed
Rachel, a twenty-four-year-old talent-agency assistant in Los Angeles who controls her life through strict rules about food, falls for the zaftig Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her frozen yogurt shop.
Housekeeping
Ruth and her younger sister Lucille, orphaned beside a glacial lake in Fingerbone, Idaho, are raised by their aunt Sylvie, a drifter who keeps house in her own strange way, and as Lucille chooses an ordinary life, Ruth drifts towards Sylvie's.
Strange Pilgrims
Twelve stories of Latin Americans in Europe, written and rewritten over eighteen years: a deposed Caribbean president in Geneva, a woman who stops to use a telephone and ends up in an asylum in Spain, a ghost in a Tuscan castle.
Heft
Arthur Opp, a former professor too heavy to leave his Brooklyn brownstone, gets a call from a former student he has loved from afar for decades, and her teenage son, a baseball talent in Yonkers, becomes the other half of the story.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
Weetzie Bat
Weetzie Bat, a punk teenager in 1980s Los Angeles, makes a family with her gay best friend Dirk, his boyfriend Duck, a man she calls My Secret Agent Lover Man and the wishes a genie grants her.