If I didn't know better, I would think that this book was actually an inside joke between myself and the author! It's not so much that it is a funny book (although there are some humorous scenes) - it's about the "AHA-- FINALLY there is someone who knows how it is!" It's all about eating the amazing food that everyone else thinks is "weird" and not knowing where exactly you belong. Finally, someone else who knows that eating shouldn't be about plain sustenance, but about being a true experience. People are always looking at me funny when I say that I have eaten food that has almost moved me to tears, but the characters in this book know it is true.