· After the dazzle of her debut (The Book of Salt, ), Truong returns with a coming-of-age narrative about a young girl who has always felt like an outsider in her small North Carolina town, not to mention within her own family. After the dazzle of her debut (The Book of Salt, ), Truong returns with a coming-of-age narrative about a young. Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Monique Truong came to the U.S. as a refugee in She is a writer based now in Brooklyn. Her novels are The Sweetest Fruits (Viking Books, ), Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, ), and The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, ).Cited by: Bitter in the Mouth is equally impressive. Truong has fashioned a truly unforgettable coming of age story featuring a young girl with synesthesia who tastes words. As a narrator, Linda Hammerick is unique and relatable, and Truong's brilliant depiction of her interaction with her family, friends, and the rest of the world makes Bitter in the Mouth of the year's most clever and poetic novels.
Monique Truong is a great observer and a beautiful writer." —Yiyun Li "Monique Truong creates a world so subtle, mysterious, moving and sensory that it heightens our consciousness of those qualities in our own. Bitter in the Mouth is the rare novel that makes one life story unique and universal at the same time." —Gloria Steinem. About Bitter in the Mouth. From Monique Truong, winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and author of The Sweetest Fruits, a brilliant, virtuosic novel about a young woman's search for identity and the true meaning of family "What I know about you, little girl, would break you in two" are the prophetic last words that Linda Hammerick's grandmother says to her. To Truong's credit, "Bitter in the Mouth" ends sweetly, though elegiacally. "Bitter's" end is neither bitter nor sweet, but the perfect combination of both: bittersweet, a word.
Truong’s prose is lovely, conveying a voice that is honest, whip-smart and funny. This must-read book surely belongs among the year’s best literature. —Hyphen Magazine, Issue 21 (Fall ) Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth, is a beautifully written, complex story of self-discovery. The narrator, Linda Hammerick, looks back from the vantage point of her 30s to her childhood in a small Southern town, a place where she never felt she belonged. Book by MONIQUE TRUONGReviewed by SU-YEE LIN. While parents often tell their children how unique they are, Linda Hammerick, the narrator of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth, truly is unique in an unexpected way. She has a particular form of synesthesia which expresses itself in the ability to taste words. Bitter in the Mouth is a novel by Vietnamese-American author Monique Truong. The novel is written in a stream of consciousness narrative structure and follows the character of Linda Hammerick as she comes of age. Linda remembers her childhood in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the s and her relationships that follow, through college and beyond.
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