num_pages: 295
description: Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political struggles, she is undergoing healing in the Southwest Community Infirmary. Confronting her there is Minnie Ransom, spinster and fabled vehicle of the spirit world. Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political struggles, she is undergoing healing in the Southwest Community Infirmary. Confronting her there is Minnie Ransom, spinster and fabled vehicle of the spirit world.
language: English
title: The Salt Eaters
titlecomplete: The Salt Eaters
genres: Classics, American, Feminism, Race, African American, Novels, Literature, Unfinished, Fiction, African American Literature
ratings_count: 1263
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Womens Press