num_pages: 261
description: "[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.
language: English
title: The Book of Salt
titlecomplete: The Book of Salt
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, LGBT, Novels, Asian Literature, Queer, Food, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 6003
places: Paris, North Carolina, Saigon
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
category: Adult Fiction Honor