Ugh, iniquity. Yeah, there were a few dishes my parents made when I was a kid that contained jicama, and I always wanted to spit it out. I probably mostly did spit it out, or eat around it.

Just one! What a pity! Honestly, it’s fun having more. I have two sisters I was born with and one I acquired later in life, and I would be very sorry to have to do without any of them. They’re lovely humans.

If you like Garcia Marquez, perhaps you’d be even MORE likely to like this than I was. I feel that I liked it in spite of its Marquezian qualities, but probably someone like you would like it all the better for those similarities.

Not off topic! Very on topic and thank you for telling me because sometimes I feel like I am all alone in not loving Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Everyone loves him so.

Yes, do read it! I do not usually like a family saga, and I thought this one was just great.

Me and jicama: I don’t know. Truly. I don’t know. I have never been able to tolerate it. There’s something about the texture I just absolutely can’t handle.

Yeah, I’ve heard that comparison too. I haven’t read The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and have never been particularly drawn to it, so I can’t speak to that. The Turner House is definitely really good — and I think it very smartly focuses on three of the twelve siblings, rather than trying to talk about all of them.

I…I don’t know. Like, I really can’t try different jicamas to test this theory, because the very thought of them makes my skin crawl. I am cringing away from my computer screen right now. The texture. I can’t.

DO read this book though! It’s so good!

This book in comparison sounds much better.

What’s up with you and jicama? 🙂

I had never heard of jicama til I moved to Texas, and now I’m addicted to it. I wonder if you just haven’t met the right jicama? That’s also my theory about people who say they hate cats.