On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein 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 slice.
But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can\'t discern..
Soon, she\'s privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father\'s detachment, her mother\'s transgression, her brother\'s increasing retreat from the world.
To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein 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 slice
