Monique Truong's Bitter in the Mouth
A young girl growing up in Boiling Springs, NC, tastes every word she hears or says, complicating an already complicated life. The first half of this book, which flits back and forth through her adolescence and through NC history, is a little slow (despite great characters like best friend Kelly, with whom she exchanges letters, and her great-uncle "Baby" Harper), but things really pick up in the second half, which was excellent. This comes out in August and there'll definitely be some local publicity. A-.
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