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The Salt Eaters

By: Toni Cade Bambara
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
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A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times).

Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review).

Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.

©1980 Toni Cade Bambara (P)2022 Tantor African American Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Political

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I really wanted to enjoy this, I tried 3 times but unable to follow as the narration was so bad. The constant inflection made the story incomprehensible.

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