The Book of Salt
Monique Truong
261 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0099455455
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Language: English
Publish: 1072944000000
Asian LiteratureFictionFoodFranceHistoricalHistorical FictionLGBTLiterary FictionNovelsQueer
“[He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper. It began captivatingly for those ‘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.