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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
This was one of my all-time favorite books as a child. It is about a twelve-year-old boy in an time and place where liberalism/socialism has taken seemingly permanent hold. But that's only part of it. You will be surprised just how much descriptions of the world and of Jonas' experiences parallel synesthesia. Rereading it years later and now knowing I have synesthesia, I am once again hit with the fact that not everyone perceives color and other stimuli in the same way. This is a must-read for any age!
(Another good children's book by her - and one with a much better-written ending, thankfully - is Number the Stars, set during the time of German socialism under Hitler. It's concerns a Danish girl, her family, and her Jewish friend they must help smuggle out of the country. Neither this book or The Giver are easily forgotten.)
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