Captain ZERO ZERO itibaren Clackamas, OR, Spojené štáty americké
I'm glad that I didn't read the reviews for this book before I read it. The reviews gave me the impression that it was the younger, more homely sister among siblings, as compared to The Book of Salt. However, I really liked this book. The first half was a rolling bike ride through Linda Hammerick's childhood and introduction to the main characters. The language was beautiful, if the not the painful relationships between the characters. An estranged mother and father, a grandmother with no filter on her tongue, a great uncle with nothing and everything in common with her and a best friend who barely acts like a friend. This is all tempered through the eyes of her special talent, the association of tastes with all of the words in her life. Act 2: Linda drops the bomb and explains all of the craziness just described in act 1. Her father's love for a Vietnamese woman (her mother), the crazy night that brought her to live with her adoptive mother and father, the fact that she is Asian (Linh-Dao), the fact that her uncle is a closet homosexual and cross-dresser and the fact that she has a medical condition call synesthesia (a crossing of two sensory portions of the brain).