Aimee Bender

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. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 1, 2010.