Bitter In The Mouth Pdf

Truong lavishly describes Southern cooking — biscuits, ham, coconut cake, tomatoes — as the only language of love Linda’s family knows. Food becomes a substitute for emotional intimacy. But food also fails: the novel’s traumatic center involves a sexual assault that Linda can only process through the taste of unrelated words. The body remembers what the mind cannot narrate.

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