The Book Of Salt

"[He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper. It began captivatingly for those '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.

Author: Monique Truong

Publisher: Vintage

Released Date: 2004

ISBN: 9780099455455