Wordsworth’s Reviews > The Cake Therapist > Status Update

I can't keep reading this during the week of the Kavanaugh trial. This book is a weird dichotomy of two stories being woven together: a complete sob story about Depression era orphans and their suffering, including a violent rape, mixed with a contemporary magical realism story with a protagonist whose narrative voice sounds completely vapid, but whose life intersects with a pile of dark, traumatic stories. What.