![]() ![]() A chance encounter in the grocery store and her troubles with algebra finally convince her to talk to her parents. That her view of the world is very different than most people's view of the world. And don't even get her started on algebra.īut she learned at an early age not to mention the colors. For Mia, letters and numbers and words have different, very specific, colors - which can make reading very difficult. Not the way most people see colors, but she sees colors when she hears certain noises, or when she hears music. Which brings us to Mia's secret: She sees colors. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange, like a mango in different seasons. She named him for the color of his voice: The first time they brought him in, the vet told the Winchells that if Mango lived a month, he'd probably be able to compensate for the rip in the lining of his lung, though he'd always have a wheeze.Įveryone assumes that Mia named him for his orange eyes, but she didn't. Mango the Magnificat, who Mia suspects may be a reincarnation of her grandfather. ![]() Her grandfather died about a year ago, and though she is still mourning him, she feels that she hasn't completely lost him - because at his funeral, she found Mango. Maybe there's a whole synesthesia genre that I'm unaware of. It is not a condition that you run across very often in literature. Before reading A Mango-Shaped Space, the last time I read anything about synesthesia was, well, back when I read reviews of A Mango-Shaped Space. ![]()
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