num_pages: 168
description: The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm.Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.
language: English
title: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
titlecomplete: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
genres: 20th Century, Canada, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Anthologies, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 835
places: Canada
publisher: New Canadian Library