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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Clean literary prose
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Some
Adult substance use observed by child narrator
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of family dysfunction, depression, and the psychological burden of involuntary emotional intimacy
What this book is about
Nine-year-old Rose discovers she can taste the feelings of whoever prepared her food—a 'gift' that exposes her mother's hidden unhappiness and her brother's slow disappearing act in this melancholy magical realist novel about unwanted intimacy and family distance.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Themes of family dysfunction and parental depression
Psychological weight of unwanted empathy
Brother's mysterious disappearing act—metaphorical and disturbing
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