The Taste of Salt

Martha Southgate's fluidly composed novel follows Josie, an African-American marine biologist who, despite her successes, cannot break free from the ties that tether her to her family, struggling with generations of addiction. This powerful narrative earns its oceanic themes, as it washes over the reader with tidal force.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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