SALTWATERHYMN
Saltwater Hymn
A novel
Long-divided sisters come home to dispose of their father’s waterside inn, then learn his diaries recount a stranger version of the night their family divided.
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The Plot
Long-divided sisters come home to dispose of their father’s waterside inn, then learn his diaries recount a stranger version of the night their family divided.
Through one tide-ruled season of mending, remorse, and dockside coffee after midnight, they piece together the truth — and what pardon may genuinely demand. A shining reflection on sorrow and the cadence of home.
In This Edition
- The complete “dock diaries” appended in full.
- A note on the genuine waterside inns behind the setting.
- Prompts on mourning, recall, and sisterhood.
An Excerpt
The inn observed hours of its own. At two in the morning the pipes knocked as though seeking entry, and June lay counting sounds the way others count sheep — mooring ropes, gulls, the icebox, her sister asleep next door after fourteen years apart.
| Format | Hardcover, 288 pages |
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| Publisher | Alder & Wren Books |
| Published | 2019 |
| ISBN | 978-1-64729-011-6 |
Critical Voices
“Radiant — Linden at once her gentlest and most exact.”— The Guardian
“A story that comprehends loss as the shoreline comprehends the sea.”— The Paris Review
