The town doesn’t empty all at once. It empties by whoever leaves next — and by who is left to notice.
Four novels set along a coastline where the fishing boats have mostly gone and the houses are mostly for sale. Written for the people who didn’t leave when everyone else did.
The Salt House
Everyone who could leave already has
When the co-op closes and the last boat is sold, most of the town packs up within a year. The Salt House follows three sisters who don’t — not from loyalty exactly, but because someone has to be the one who stays and notices what a place looks like while it is disappearing.
Set on the same stretch of coast as her three earlier novels.
A festival panel on place and memory, and a craft workshop for writers who want to write the coast properly.
Panel conversations about place, memory and the small towns that get emptied out from under people. Also available: a half-day workshop on writing landscape as character, not backdrop.
PanelsPlace & memoryWorkshopWriting the CoastShortlistedRegional prize (fictional)
From the jacket of The Salt House
Read chapter one, plus occasional notes from the coast.
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