The taste of salt / a novel by Martha Southgate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Southgate, Martha.

Series:

Algonquin readers round table.

Algonquin readers round table

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

Scientists--Fiction.

Scientists.

Cleveland (Ohio)--Fiction.

Cleveland (Ohio).

Ohio--Cleveland.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

Summary:

"Josie Henderson is most at home in and around water, and as a senior-level black female scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she is practically alone in her field. But in building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family roots back in Cleveland. When Tick, her brother and childhood ally against their alcoholic father, arrives on her doorstep fresh from rehab and teetering on the edge of a relapse, Josie must finally face her family's past--and her own patterns of addiction."--Page 4 of cover.

"Josie Henderson is most at home in and around water, and as a senior-level black female scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she is practically alone in her field. But in building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family roots back in Cleveland. When Tick, her brother and childhood ally against their alcoholic father, arrives on her doorstep fresh from rehab and teetering on the edge of a relapse, Josie must finally face her family's past--and her own patterns of addiction."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

The taste of salt

The birth of The taste of salt

Questions for discussion.

Notes:

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Honor, 2012

ISBN:

9781565129252

1565129253

OCLC:

712124030