The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel (22 page)

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the Immaculate Heart Center and the Corporation at Yaddo, and for the wisdom and great help of: Bill Thomas, Henry Dunow, Melissa Danaczko, Alice Sebold, Glen Gold, Miranda Jung, Mike Jung, Suzanne Bender, Clifford Johnson, Harold Meltzer, Meri Bender and her dance "Quartet," David Bender, Karen Bender, Brian Albert, Phil Hay, Julie Reed, Lori Yeghiayan, Helen Desmond, and Mark Miller.

About the Author

Aimee Bender is the author of the novel
An Invisible Sign of My Own
and of the collections
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
and
Willful Creatures
. Her work has been widely anthologized and has been translated into ten languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright (c) 2010 by Aimee Bender

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Bender, Aimee.
The particular sadness of lemon cake : a novel / by Aimee Bender. -- 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Taste--Fiction. 2. Family secrets--Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.E538447I94 2010
813'.54--dc22

2009032541

eISBN: 978-0-385-53322-5

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