The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake no more. . .

Well, I continued to read this book in Hawaii, in the evenings before bed and then I read it on the airplane ride home and it was a red-eye flight.  Needless to say, I fell asleep.  The story never evolved or developed.  It continued with Rose eating packaged and processed foods because she was tired of tasting her Mother's affair and disinterest in her husband.  Rose, finally, did confront her Mother about the affair when her Mother went on a "work trip" to Nova Scotia.  It almost seemed too casual.  Her Mother's response, "Oh, I didn't realize you knew about that?"  Really, like affairs are that casual, especially when caught in the act by your 13 year old daughter?  Her brother, Joseph, was getting more and more strange.  He spent all his time in his room and would randomly disappear.  Rose's father remained distant and unaware of any affair or problems in the family.  This book fell so flat for me!  Thursday afternoon, I ran into one of my friends who is in the book club.  I asked her if she finished the book and she said she didn't; she couldn't, it was a boring read with nothing to offer.  I felt the same.  She told me how it ended.  Along with Rose's peculiar ability to taste others' feelings, her brother, Joseph had an ability to change himself into an inanimate object.  Hence, the reason Rose could not find her brother when he was supposedly babysitting her at home.  Her father could not step into a hospital because of his ability to "smell" disease or death.  And the mother?  No ability other than to cheat.  Hmmm. . . I rate this one star.  Don't waste your time with this book.