Salt: A Novel

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 Annas family and friends in a remarkably moving novel of exultation and despair of grief and ghosts.