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Grace K. asked this question about The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake:
What happened with Joseph when he was an adult? I don't really get what happened with the whole chair thing or whatever. He's trying to make himself into a chair?
Geoffrey Nutting I thought Joseph's gift was to shapeshift (thus, sometimes a chair, sometimes a dresser, etc; that's also why he would periodically disappear).

Some pe…moreI thought Joseph's gift was to shapeshift (thus, sometimes a chair, sometimes a dresser, etc; that's also why he would periodically disappear).

Some people had the interesting suggestion that he could feel emotions by touch (hence, pulling the splinters out of his Mom's hand).

I never saw that he 'wanted to turn himself into a chair, only'; that was just an example of one of the shapes he could assume.(less)
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