I Always Hated Red, Until I Didn’t

Exploring the color of language

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A Mango Shaped Space still occupies its very own nook in my bookcase of childhood memories. Synesthesia, a condition that takes center stage in Wendy Mass’s novel, involves the linkage of sight and sound.

It’s been at least a decade since I initially read the book, but the phenomenon of synesthesia was always fascinating to…