Salt Dancers
1997 Nominated

Salt Dancers

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman’s journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia’s mother disappear one day without so much as a word? How did a loving father who taught her such a beautiful thing as the salt dance become such a terrifying and abusive presence? These are the questions which Julia must confront when she returns to Spokane, Washington, after an absence of twenty-three years.
Salt Dancers , a superbly written novel, is a poignant and truthful chronicle of self-discovery and the power of resurrection.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Ursula
Hegi

Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred TimeHotel of the SaintsThe Vision of Emma BlauTearing the SilenceSalt DancersStones from the RiverFloating in My Mother's PalmUnearned Pleasures and Other StoriesIntrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred TimeHotel of the SaintsThe Vision of Emma BlauTearing the SilenceSalt DancersStones from the RiverFloating in My Mother's PalmUnearned Pleasures and Other StoriesIntrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United Kingdom
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster

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