Bitter in the Mouth is 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. Growing up in small-town North Carolina in the 1970s and '80s, Linda already knows that she is profoundly different from everyone else, including the members of her own family. She can -taste- words. In this and in other ways, her body is a mystery to her. Linda's awkward girlhood is nonetheless enlivened and...