A Mango-Shaped Space Paperback – October 19, 2005

Wow, I couldn't stop myself from reading a couple chapters per day! The first-person narrator Mia Winchell is a very interesting character. I admire how she uses her unique ability(called Synesthesia) to view color from hearing sounds and seeing letters and numbers to her advantage in her classes. For example, as bad as it gets, Mia is HORRIBLE at math, but she uses her Synesthesia to help her on a math quiz by assigning colors to the letter variables to certain memorable colors. She then gets that "big, beautiful, sunflower yellow" A. She thinks it's cheating, but I think it's a great use of her unique power. There is also a sad but touching part toward the end, when Mia's cat Mango passes away, and afterwards Mia realizes she lost her Synesthesia. She then saw a really bland world before her eyes temporarily. She then got her Synesthesia back later on, but when I read this sad part of the near end, I knew right away how strong of a bond is created between Mia and Mango, and how Mia should never be ashamed of her uniqueness as she did in the beginning(as she soon regretted the lost of her power when she saw the world without it).Overall, A Mango-Shaped Space is a very good and vividly detailed book, while still conveying the learning lesson or theme to the reader: be yourself no matter how different and unique you are.

The journey of the main character truly explores what it means to accept oneself for all the parts of you. The character explores her identity, and the story wraps up in a wonderful way. A great, quick read

Still holds up 20 years later! Great coming of age story. I highly recommend reading it, no matter your age.

A 5th grade student alerted me to this book. It left a deep impression on me, will need a few hankies with this one. Highly recommend.

I loved this book for many reasons but the main one was probably because the main character was a synesthete just like me. But I gave this book five stars because I enjoyed every second of it, and reading it for the first time was quite an adventure but going back and rereading it after I had figured out I had synesthesia was very cool. Synesthesia is not a disease if that's what you were thinking. Synesthesia is where the senses in your mind blend together. For instance thing of a line then think of a line on top of that but the both form an "X" then think of more lines added on top, so when the brain is formed sometimes the lines will fuse together makes your senses (the lines) connect. For example some people who have it whenever they hear something they see colors in the air in front of them, or maybe whenever they see shapes they can actually feel the shapes on their skin, or maybe it could smaller like whenever they steel broccoli they see the letter "I". So stuff like that. And this book is about a girl who goes through life but still dealing with her synesthesia. This book was definitely the best book I have ever read. And I've read a lot of books. :)

My friend told me that she saw colors a couple of months ago. This is her favorite book. Now I can see she was lying. Anyways, this book was so cute and well written I couldn't put it down! It was very interesting and the author clearly explained synesthesia. My heart broke at the end and I couldn't't stop bawling. When my mom asked why, I explained that Mango the cat died and all she saw was a mango shape space. Also that Adam was a jerk and Roger was really nice to her. This book was so cute and just overall perfect! I just wish their was more! I hope that they adopt the other cat, name him Mustard, and the book will be called "Mustard shaped space" but I don't know that might be stupid. I just want this to happen:1) Roger and Mia to get together2) Mia adopts Mango's son3) Mango' s son doesn't die.I hope you find this review helpful to you to make the right choice and buy this book!

As soon as I started this book I knew that it was going to be good. It really makes you think and look at life from a person with a challenges perspective. I recomend this book for anyone 8-14 years old. This book was really good.

My friends grandson thought this book was "interesting", so she read it and thought I might like to read it.It was most interesting because I see auras around people, animals and just about everything, as do my children.I have been a little concerned lately because I now see colored shapes in the air on occasion and I thought theremight be something wrong with my eyesight. Now I know there isn't! I had recently read about "synesthesia" on thenet because my husband noticed an article about it Scientists seem to consider it a "condition" because there aremore synapses firing in the brain than is normal. To me this means that synesthetes are actually utilizing moreof the brain than is "normal". Isn't this a good thing? Just think of what might be possible if we could stimulateand access more of the "dormant" parts of the brain. I truly believe that we as humans are capable of being so muchmore than we are.