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A richly textured novel of separation and connection, ecstasy and desolation at the turn of the twentieth century follows Anna Maud Stockton Bayley, from her birth to her death, as she, driven by her great love of books and her longing to create a new life, marries a local man and begins a family. Reprint.
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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 Anna's family and friends in a remarkably moving novel of exultation and despair, of grief and ghosts.
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