<p>"[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.</p>

The Book of Salt

Literature & Fiction

Monique Truong

Genre Fiction

Random House]

<p>Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words and tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; and she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle 'Baby' Harper, who loves her and loves to dance, and her best friend fat-thin-fat Kelly with whom she has been exchanging letters since they were seven. But then a tragedy and a revelation will make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.</p>

Bitter in the Mouth

United States

Vintage Books

The Sweetest Fruits

Parenting & Relationships

Upswell Publishing

Chatto&Windus

Bitter in the Mouth (Import)

The Sweetest Fruits: A Novel

Penguin??Books

Literary

RB Large Print

Bitter in the Mouth Unabridged CDs

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