The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday)

We're delighted to have Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, back at Skylight to present her new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake!

"[Aimee Bender] makes you grateful for the very existence of language." —San Francisco Chronicle (review of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt)

"To curl up with an Aimee Bender story is to thank heaven you ever learned to read in the first place" —Entertainment Weekly (review of Willful Creatures)

Aimee Bender is the author of the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own and the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. She has received two Pushcart prizes and was nominated for the Tiptree Award in 2005.

Photo of the author by Max S. Gerber.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Hardcover)

By Aimee Bender

$25.95

ISBN-13: 9780385501125
Availability: In the Warehouse (Usually ships to store or customer in 2-7 days. Call for time-sensitive orders)
Published: Doubleday, 6/2010

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The wondrous Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" is a luminous tale--heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad.

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Willful Creatures (Paperback)

By Aimee Bender

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9780385720977
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor, 8/2006

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The author of the critically acclaimed story collection "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" returns with more sublime, beguiling, and breathtakingly original stories of love, sex, heartbreak, and potato babies.

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An Invisible Sign of My Own (Paperback)

By Aimee Bender

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9780385492249
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor, 7/2001

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Mona Gray, a second grade math teacher, knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. But while she maintains this precarious equilibrium in her strange, tidy universe, love intrudes in the form of the new science teacher.

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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories (Paperback)

By Aimee Bender

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9780385492164
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor, 8/1999

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A bestselling short story collection by a writer who "makes you grateful for the very existence of language" ("San Francisco Chronicle").

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