The Cake House
By Latifah Salom
By Latifah Salom
By Latifah Salom
By Latifah Salom
Category: Gothic & Horror | Literary Fiction
Category: Gothic & Horror | Literary Fiction
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$15.00
Mar 03, 2015 | ISBN 9780345806512
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Mar 03, 2015 | ISBN 9780345806529
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Praise
“Intense and savagely beautiful, Latifah Salom’s The Cake House grabs you, then grabs you harder. The magic of this suburban-gothic literary thriller is the scale on which it’s done—small and absolutely terrifying. An accomplished, mesmerizing debut.” —Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander
“The Cake House is a gem of a novel: a mystery wrapped in a cloak of family dysfunction with subtle Shakespearean trim. . . . Rosaura is a heroine with spunk and a vulnerability so endearing I missed her the second I closed the book. Salom has written a dazzling coming-of-age tale that will resonate long after you reach the end.” —Elizabeth Flock, New York Times bestselling author of Me & Emma and What Happened To My Sister
“Readers will welcome Salom’s debut for her nimble prose, as she constructs an otherworldly Southern California setting. . . . From the explosive first pages, when 14-year-old Rosaura’s father is shot dead in the entrance of the grand but sterile “cake house” of the title, we know that pieces of this mystery will remain teasingly hazy. . . . A worthwhile page-turner.” —Booklist
“Tense, shocking, and seductively dark, The Cake House is a brand-new twist on a classic story—an urban reinvention of a Shakespearean tale.” —Rebecca Coleman, bestselling author of The Kingdom of Childhood
“Reading The Cake House, I vividly saw the whole edifice rising up before me, latticework covering a multitude of sins. A wonderful, chewy, complicated book that doesn’t flinch from danger or pain but rejects despair.” —Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling Temeraire series
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