Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake Chinese and the strain of keeping

and the strain of keeping their secret is taking its toll

Sharon Ferguson

far away from New Orleans

and democracy

beloved American community” (George Saunders)

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake Chinese and the strain of keepingBy: Alexis Hall Following the recipe is the key to a successful bake. Rosaline Palmer has always lived by those rules well, except for when she dropped out of college to raise her daughter, Amelie. Now, with a paycheck as useful as greaseproof paper and a house crumbling faster than biscuits in tea, she's teetering on the edge of financial disaster. But where there's a whisk there's a way . . . and Rosaline has just landed a spot on the nation's most