Saltwater
A Novel
by Jessica Andrews
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
This luminous (The Observer) feminist comingofage novel captures in sensuous, blistering prose the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her motherIt begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.From that first salty, viscous connection, through ...
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