Read the excerpt from Other Words for Home.She toasts them right on the open flame in our kitchen. I know that everyone’s mother makes them this way, but I still cannot imagine doing it myself one day.It seems so bold. So brave. It is playing with fire.Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga Text Copyright (c) 2019 by Jasmine Warga. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers
The speaker describes the mother’s way of toasting food as “bold” and “so brave.” Those words show respect and appreciation, even though the speaker admits she cannot imagine doing it herself. So the tone is admiring, not worried.
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