Bitter In The Mouth | Pdf Updated

Truong situates her protagonist in the American South, a region with a rich literary history of isolation and eccentricity. Linda is an outsider on two fronts: she is of Vietnamese descent in a predominantly white Southern town, and she possesses a "strange" neurological condition.

The novel is structured in two parts—"Confession" and "Revelation"—reflecting its heavy focus on hidden truths. bitter in the mouth pdf