Book Description
Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, THE SALT EATERS is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever.


From the Inside Flap
Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, THE SALT EATERS is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever.

ANNOTATION

Bambara's first novel chronicling black urban life in the South through the 1950s and 60s.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, THE SALT EATERS is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever.

FROM THE CRITICS

John Edgar Wideman

"With a first and freedom of a great traditional storyteller...Tony Caid Bambara takes a lot of chances. Her novel set in the Black section of a large southern city...but her characters also inhabit the non-linea, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion." -- The New York Times Book Review

Anne Tyler