The Taste of Salt
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781616201159 (1616201150)
Publish date: September 13th 2011
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Family,
Contemporary,
Female Authors
Josephine is one of very few black women in the field of marine biology. She's also the product of a troubled family -- both her father and her brother are alcoholics. Everything about her life has set her up for solitude and she's okay with that: she herself states that she's not sure she has enoug...
I wanted to like this book. I loved the idea of Josie. She is the ice princess, the smart girl who works hard and gets herself out of a tough home situation (as a child of addicts who herself struggles with addiction and strives to walk the line between understanding and rejecting family I can emp...
The Taste of Salt is one of those novels that requires time to sit and stew on what was just read. The power of the novel only comes after the reader has had time to reflect. While it could be construed as depressingly realistic in its portrayal of family and addiction, there is an underlying beauty...
This book left me with a sense of the main character's loss. I liked the book, I just feel unsettled and almost voyeuristic into the characters lives.
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