Title: The salt house
First published: 1999
Description: "The Salt House is a memoir of a long summer's stay on the back shore of Cape Cod. Each chapter is like a prose poem, shedding increasing light on the challenge of finding "home" without the illusion of permanence, a quest based not on ownership but on affinity and familiarity with an area and its people. Cynthia Huntington expands her theme through images of the landscape, the shack, the new marriage."--BOOK JACKET.

"The shack, named "Euphoria," is built as a house set on stilts above the sand, to take the wind under it. Only a partial shelter, it is inhabited for only one season a year, yet it endures. The outer cape has the feel of a place for migrants and drifters - for birds and other wildlife, and for people such as artists, fishermen, and coast guardsmen.

Similarly, her narrative describes improvised, fragile beginnings: a new marriage, learning to be at home in the world, becoming intimate with the natural world, without the necessity of settling down."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: 20th century, American Poets, Biography, Cottages, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Large type books, Natural history, Poets, American, Sand dunes, Social life and customs, Summer, American Women poets, Authors, biography, Massachusetts, biography, Cape cod (mass.), biography, Cape cod (mass.), description and travel, Massachusetts, social life and customs
Places: Cape Cod, Cape Cod (Mass.), Massachusetts
People: Cynthia Huntington (1951-)
Time periods: 20th century