The Book of Salt

By Monique Truong

Format:Softcover

"[He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper. It began captivatingly for those days: 'Two American ladies wish...'" It was these lines in "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook" that inspired "The Book of Salt", a brilliant first novel by a talented young Vietnamese American writer about the taste of exile.

Historical Fiction
276 pagesSoftcover
First published 2004

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