{"product_id":"9781429956536","title":"Salt: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this beautifully crafted debut novel, poet Isabel Zuber deftly traces the joys and the sorrows of a passionate but troubled marriage in Appalachia at the turn of the last century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Stockton was a bright and imaginative child, reveling in a rare wild freedom in the mountains of western North Carolina. As a young woman possessed by romantic yearnings and a great love of books, she hungers for a new kind of life for herself. John Bayley is a hard-driven hill farmer who carries with him the pain of the early death of his father and the loss of two previous wives. When a sudden encounter brings the two together, Anna and John marry into a difficult and passionate union, one that mirrors the changing, sometimes violent, and often haunted times in which they live. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurning her jeweler's eye upon the members of a small rural community, Isabel Zuber weaves together the lives of John and Anna's family and friends in a deeply moving account of exultation and despair, of grief and ghosts. A novel worthy of the element that gives it its name—an emblem of work and sacrifice as well as of blessing and preservation—\u003ci\u003eSalt\u003c\/i\u003e is entrancing, piercingly honest fiction that gazes deeply into the human heart and yields the wisdom that such scrutiny brings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141845696752,"sku":"9781429956536","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429956536_p0.jpg?v=1769903104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429956536","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}