Bitter in the Mouth

Name: Bitter in the Mouth
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Monique Truong
ISBN: 9781456131487

Author: Monique Truong

Narrator: Jennifer Ikeda

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/23/2010

Categories: Fiction, Women, Sagas, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Booklist calls author Monique Truong a "gifted storyteller." Here Truong pens a mesmerizing tale starring Linda Hammerick, a woman with a truly unique gift-the ability to experience words through taste. The word "disappoint" always leaves a bad taste in Linda's mouth, like burnt toast. And this taste is particularly powerful around her family. Yet when a tragedy occurs, Linda has no choice but to return home to North Carolina. "[A] powerful novel-Booklist, starred review

About Monique Truong

Monique Truong was born in Saigon and moved to the United States at age six. She graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law, going on to specialize in intellectual property. The Book of Salt is a national bestseller and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leylak Dalı on May 12, 2021

Linda herkesten farklı bir algılamaya sahip küçük bir kızdır, çünkü sinesteziyle yaşamaktadır. Ondaki yansıması kelimeleri yiyecek tadı olarak ağzında duyumlaması şeklindedir. Kendi adı söylediğinde "nane" tadı alır mesela. Kitapta önce Linda'nın büyüme sancılarını, en yakın arkadaşı Kelly ve büyük......more

Goodreads review by Judy on June 08, 2012

I was completely enchanted by Monique Truong's first novel, The Book of Salt. Of course, it was set in Paris, with a fictional Vietnamese immigrant who served as cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas. So tasty. Bitter in the Mouth is set in the American south, but as I know from William Faulkner,......more

Goodreads review by Lorraine on July 23, 2019

What if words had taste? I bet we'd be kinder to our kin...Linda, the protagonist, suffers from "synethesia" which converts words into flavours. It is a neurological disorders and has no known cure. Ultimately, though, the novel becomes a moving investigation of invented families and small-town subte......more