The Next Best Book Club discussion

I find the medical condition of synesthesia to be really interesting, and fiction based on it as well. So far, I've read these synesthesia-themed works, can you suggest any others? Thanks

A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

The Humming of Numbers by Joni Sensel

Still Waters: A Mystery and Tooth and Claw: A Mystery by Nigel McCrery

The Sound of Blue: A Novel by Holly Payne

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

The Fallen by T. Jefferson Parker

The Beautiful Miscellaneous: A Novel by Dominic Smith

Nabokov's memoir Speak, Memory contains a chapter on synesthesia and the condition is somewhat frequently mentioned throughout the book.

The Book Thief has undertones of synethesia in the descriptions, which I found wonderful, but the book isn't about that at all. It is an excellent book though! :)

Hey Joseph, did you see the Wiki link about synesthesia in literature? It has some of the abovementioned titles but also some other ones. Are you working on a project about synesthesia?

The condition plays a part in the end of the seminal sci-fi novel The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Most editions of the book make it a little more fun by playing with the layout of the text as a way to visually represent the ideas being described.

Interesting how these works are perceived as fiction! Perhaps the world has yet to fully understand the world a synethese lives in? Reminds me of ASMR http://www.asmrstudio.com/

I think they are perceived as fiction because the stories are all fictitious. I don't think anyone is suggesting the condition itself is an invention.

It's a fascinating condition, synesthesia. I was googling it recently because I read the blog of a man who very recently committed suicide. http://www.zeroshare.info/ He was in the news because his website went active right after he died. He had it all planned out, just did not want to go through all of the old age stuff, becoming feeble or feeble-minded and dependent. Anyway, in one of his blog entries he notes that rather late in life he discovered that this condition he had was called grapheme-color synesthesia. I think he didn't realize that not everyone has it. I find it fascinating, as a mathematician. To me most numbers have certain feel to them, like a personality, but sadly no colors.

Try Color Blind by Colby Marshall. I read an arc of it last month. It's Criminal Minds meets synesthesia Rain Man.

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