An unusual coming-of-age story about a girl with an unusual gift.Rose Edelstein can taste emotions in the food she eats - whatever the person who prepared the food feels, and all the way down to the individual ingredients. At nine, she discovers her mother’s emptiness and despair in a slice of lemon...
An unusual coming-of-age story about a girl with an unusual gift.Rose Edelstein can taste emotions in the food she eats - whatever the person who prepared the food feels, and all the way down to the individual ingredients. At nine, she discovers her mother’s emptiness and despair in a slice of lemon...
It began with a great premise and Bender writes well enough, but when absurdities started stacking up my eyes started rolling. Rose's struggle was interesting, but when the focus turned onto her brother and his own peculiarities I had to force myself to see the book through.
I listened to the audio version of this book, read by the author. I thought that it was amazing! The writing! The nuance! It's such an odd book, full of the richness of life. I kept thinking, "Ah, NOW I know what it's about..." only to have the author switch gears and go off in a different dire...
Read this as part of a "pick-for-me" challenge, which was great, as I don't think I would have otherwise gotten to it on the TBR list anytime soon :)Very unusual - I found myself at first disliking Bender's disjointed writing style and rather strange concept for a book that officially falls in the C...
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