iI'll kill the first person who comes through this door. My father grips a baseball bat in his meaty hands.i pIt is 1962 and Diane is three years old when her violent father moves their family--her, her pregnant mother, and her six siblings--to a remote farm in Upstate New York. There, she grabs the reader by the hand and takes them to the broken-down barns, barren fields, and rows of bunk beds in her rat-infested attic bedroom as she questions all that feels wrong about her new world. She watches her ever-pregnant mother grow emotionally colder with each new baby and wonders, iWhere is she when he swings his fists, his steel-toed boot, or a crowbari Forced to perform adult manual labor in between the erratic beatings she and her siblings pound on one another to release their own aggressions, she asks herself, iIs this what we've become What I've becomei pNarrated in the ever-hopeful voice of a child, iThe Taste of Angeri explores in raw, unflinching detail how years of isolation, oppr