by Jael McHenry
It isn't often that I say "I couldn't put this one down" but its the truth about this one! The author grabs the reader at the very start, with her main character Ginny. And while the "magic realism" part could have been too much, it is tempered nicely with the reality that Ginny is trying to cope wi...
3.5 stars
Ginny, a woman who struggles with Asperger's syndrome, loses her parents who have helped her set up coping strategies her entire life and sheltered her to some degree. In the aftermath of their deaths, Ginny struggles with her sister, and the idea of independence while dealing with grief. And alon...
What exactly is normal? Are you normal because you fit into societies shell or are you normal because you don’t cause waves? Ginny has always lived with her parents and had been taken care of by them until an accident killed her parents. Believing that nothing would change, Ginny continues on her ...
Ginny can't interact with people normally, but she truly comes alive through her cooking. It "normalizes" her like nothing else and even reading the recipes calms her and puts her mind in order like nothing else since she has Aperger's Syndrome. After Ginny's parents die suddenly, her sister Amand...
This story is told from Ginny's POV who has Asperger's Syndrome. She was never diagnosed so her parents did the best that they knew how in bringing her up. Unfortunately her mother protected her so much that she became isolated and really didn't learn how to deal with people in society. Her father a...
Upon finishing The Kitchen Daughter, I immediately wanted to grab one of my favorite recipes and set up shop in my kitchen, to play with the texture and aromas of food, and enjoy my family's reaction to it. Ginny's relationship with food, how it makes her strong and gives her purpose, is inspiring. ...
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