Aimee Bender

Join us to knit or crochet while we discuss The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, an imaginative novel in which a young girl discovers her ability to taste emotions through food in an unexpected way.

Bring your own project or help us reach our goal of providing 200 hats for the homeless in December.

New to knitting? Come at 6:30pm and get a free lesson.

We will take December off, and our next meeting will be January 14. (added from IndieBound)… (more)

“This first novel is not like anything you or I have ever read. Something between a shocking exposé, a defiant treatise, a prose poem, and an exuberant Girl Scout manual, it is always formally inventive and bursting with energy. Yes, this is an insider’s report confirming the worst you ever allowed yourself to think about lowdown trailer parks. And yet somehow Tupelo Hassman’s book is also a testament to joy and beauty, and to the saving power of language wherever it gets a foothold. She has irrepressible high spirits, which flow forth in this case as brilliance and lyricism. Tupelo Hassman loves life in spite of everything, and you can’t help loving this novel and her.” Jaimy Gordon, author of the National Book Award winner Lord of misrule

“This amazing debut spills over with love, but is still absolutely unflinching and real. That is no easy combo to pull off, and Tupelo Hassman does it repeatedly with precision and grace. Rory D. is ebulliently alive on the page; she’s really that kind of fresh new voice people talk about, leaving us with a completely memorable character.” Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia’s MFA program. Her writing has been published in the Portland Review Literary Journal, Paper Street Press, Tantalum, We Still Like, and Zyzzyva, and by 100 Word Story, Five Chapters.com, and Invisible City Audio Tours.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Aimee Bender reads from The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday) is a luminous tale — heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad — and was chosen as the latest volume of Powells.com's Indiespensable subscription club. (oregonobsessionz)… (more)