Anna Stockton was a bright, imaginative child exulting in a rare freedom in the mountains of North Carolina who grew into a young woman possessed of romantic yearnings and a great love of books. Hungering to make a new kind of life for herself, she marries John Bayley, a man twice widowed, and begins a family amid a difficult and fiery union. Set in the fictional hamlet of Faith, North Carolina, Salt weaves together the lives of Anna's family and friends in a remarkably moving novel of exultation and despair, of grief and ghosts.
Anna Stockton was a bright, imaginative child exulting in a rare freedom in the mountains of North Carolina who grew into a young woman possessed o...
"Using dark arts of incantation and understatement, Isabel Zuber makes poems that draw us into their spaces-allusive stories of Thens, Nows, and Nevers, haunted by spirits of Always." - Sarah Lindsay, National Book Award finalist and author of Twigs and Knucklebones
"Using dark arts of incantation and understatement, Isabel Zuber makes poems that draw us into their spaces-allusive stories of Thens, Nows, and Never...
