Synesthesia is when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously. Some examples include tasting words or linking colors to numbers and letters. It’s not a medical condition, and not something to be cured, therefore it falls right under the neurodivergent umbrella. Today’s guest not only has synesthesia, she also just recently published a middle grade novel about it, which is fantastic and called The Color of Sound.
Emily Barth Isler is the author of AfterMath, an award-winning middle grade novel about grief, resilience, friendship, math, and mime. Comedian and activist Amy Schumer calls AfterMath "A gift to the culture," and author Judith Viorst pronounced it "pretty close to perfect." Emily's latest book, The Color of Sound, features a character who, like Emily, has synesthesia, and was published March 5, 2024. It has received starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal . In 2026, her first picture book, Always Enough Love, will be published by Nancy Paulsen Books. She has a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.
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Synesthesia is when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously. Some examples include tasting words or linking colors to numbers and letters. It’s not a medical condition, and not something to be cured, therefore it falls right under the neurodivergent umbrella. Today’s guest not only has synesthesia, she also just recently published a middle grade novel about it, which is fantastic and called The Color of Sound.
Emily Barth Isler is the author of AfterMath, an award-winning middle grade novel about grief, resilience, friendship, math, and mime. Comedian and activist Amy Schumer calls AfterMath "A gift to the culture," and author Judith Viorst pronounced it "pretty close to perfect." Emily's latest book, The Color of Sound, features a character who, like Emily, has synesthesia, and was published March 5, 2024. It has received starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal . In 2026, her first picture book, Always Enough Love, will be published by Nancy Paulsen Books. She has a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.
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