The Salt Eaters

When I was younger, my mother’s bookshelf was my library. It was home to many novels that are central to Black woman’s literature. I could grasp plots that featured grown-up experiences, but much of the subtext and external references escaped me. This didn’t stop me from voraciously consuming everyt......more

i learned what it really means to be whole, spiritually and emotionally. it helped me transition to a place beyond survival, the choiceto liveas a (r)evolutionary in full command of my path and purpose. if you're interested, be forewarned, it reads like a poem in that the story is multi-dimensiona......more

McElroy fan? Then this book is for you, chum - a BURIED classic that Uncle Joe would GoldStar in all of its Doppler shifting brilliance. Experimental Fiction to great success. The last 30 pages or so, when I knew it was ending, I thought back to "Women and Men" and how excited I was when I still had......more

Very good indeed. Belongs on a shelf with other similar complex, ambitious authors: Gayl Jones, Ishmael Reed, Leon Forrest etc Good overview from Oxford reference copied below, which tells you all you need to know: "Toni Cade Bambara's important multilayered novel The Salt Eaters (1980) is set in th......more

When I was assigned this book for one of my classes, the professor informed us that it was one of the most challenging books in contemporary Literature. She herself had to read it nine times to truly understand it. With that said, this is the first book I ever read that as soon as I finished I immed......more