Aimee Bender

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1) The particular sadness of lemon cake: a novel

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Being able to taste people's emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.

2) The Color Master: Stories

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Bender, Aimee

Pub. Date

2013

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eBook, Kindle

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The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.
Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full of provocative...

3) An invisible sign of my own: a novel

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Bender, Aimee

Pub. Date

c2000

Edition

1st ed.

4) The butterfly lampshade

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Bender, Aimee

Pub. Date

[2020]

Edition

First edition.

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"On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks...

5) Flash fiction America: 73 very short stories

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Flash fiction

Pub. Date

[2023]

Edition

First edition.

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"It has been more than thirty years since the term 'flash fiction' was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories...