The taste of salt
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Martha Southgate
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781565129252
Subjects: African American families; Fiction
Description: "Josie Henderson is most at home in and around water, and as a senior-level black female scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she is practically alone in her field. But in building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family roots back in Cleveland. When Tick, her brother and childhood ally against their alcoholic father, arrives on her doorstep fresh from rehab and teetering on the edge of a relapse, Josie must finally face her family's past--and her own patterns of addiction."--P. [4] of cover.