I loved this book! It's a nice story - which sounds weird - "nice" but it really is. Meg's mother is weird. She lives in a fantasy world and tells the craziest stories. At age 8 Meg told a story at school about runner beans getting up and running away and her classmates gave her weird looks a...
A touching story of a daughter's quest to learn the truth about her birth and childhood that her mother has related to her as "fairy tales", usually featuring foods. When Meg reaches the age of eight she realizes the stories her mother tells of her birth and childhood can not have happened as he...
As a sometime genealogist, I could really relate to the main character's need to understand where she came from and who she was. I also found that the inter-relationships between scientists and artists were believable black and white. I found her mother's "half truths" to be amusing, and wished I...
He looms over me, faceless, his shoulders so far above me that his head disappears into the clouds. He’s the one who smells of raw meat. A bloody steak that sits on the chopping board. A red lamb chop before it’s laid on the grill. Pink worms of pork that churn out of the mincer. The innards of a...