THE SALTHOUSE
The Salt House
A novel
In a shrinking seaside parish where the sea claims a little more ground every year, three generations of the Aubin family assemble for a final summer in the house their grandmother raised.
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The Plot
In a shrinking seaside parish where the sea claims a little more ground every year, three generations of the Aubin family assemble for a final summer in the house their grandmother raised.
Amid crab suppers, locked chapels, and the gradual mathematics of the shoreline, the Aubins have to settle what a family house is truly meant to hold. Warm and weathered by salt air, The Salt House tells of inheritance, rootedness, and the places that will not release us.
In This Edition
- Parish recipes from the shoreline summers Linden spent gathering them.
- A family-tree endsheet following the Aubins across three generations.
- Circle questions on home, belief, and release.
An Excerpt
The cottage had sunk two inches at its eastern corner, and no one raised it over supper, just as no one raised the tidemark on the boathouse or the way Grand-mère had taken to labelling every possession. Certain facts, the Aubins knew, held the roof up — disturb one, and the whole season could fall in.
| Format | Hardcover, 304 pages |
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| Publisher | Alder & Wren Books |
| Published | 2023 |
| ISBN | 978-1-64729-028-4 |
Critical Voices
“Weathered and affectionate — Linden renders landscape the way her peers render character.”— Granta
“A book for unhurried hours, best taken within sound of the sea.”— The Paris Review
