2004 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
"[He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper. It began captivatingly for those days: 'Two American ladies wish...'" It was these lines in "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook" that inspired "The Book of Salt", a brilliant first novel by a talented young Vietnamese American writer about the taste of exile.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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"The Book of Salt reminded me how thrilling really fine writing can be, and how rarely one sees it." - Sarah Waters
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