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by Martha Southgate

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Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the words of Julia Glass, "can write fat and hot, then lush and tender, then just plain truthful and burning with heart") now tells the story of a family pushed to its limits by addiction over the course of two generations.

Josie Henderson loves the water and is fulfilled by her position as the only senior-level black scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. In building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family back in landlocked Cleveland. Her adored brother, Tick, was her childhood ally as they watched their drinking father push away all the love that his wife and children were trying to give him. Now Tick himself has been coming apart and demands to be heard.

Weaving four voices into a beautiful tapestry, Southgate charts the lives of the Hendersons from the parents' first charmed meeting to Josie's realization that the ways of the human heart are more complex than anything seen under a microscope.

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  • Title The Taste of Salt
  • Author Martha Southgate
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Uncorrected Proo
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill
  • Publication date 2011-09
  • ISBN 9781565129252 / 1565129253
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.23 x 5.55 x 0.82 in (20.90 x 14.10 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects African American families, Cleveland (Ohio)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011024615
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2011, Page 24
  • Entertainment Weekly, 09/02/2011, Page 5
  • Essence, 10/01/2011, Page 83
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/2011, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2011, Page 103
  • People Weekly, 09/26/2011, Page 66
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/25/2011, Page 0
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 12/01/2011, Page 501
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