The Gilly Salt Sisters (Hardcover) by Tiffany Baker

from bearette24

This was my first book by Tiffany Baker. I liked her writing style and her story about two sisters living on a salt mine in Cape Cod, MA (the state where I grew up). Baker uses a lot of magical realism and also incorporates some hard-to-believe secrets into the narrative. Overall, I really enjoye...

from mchwest

This book started very slow, but ended with a bang and I'm so glad I stuck wit hit. Another one of those books that has been on my TBR shelf since it came out, March 2012, but I'm always glad to find a gem on the shelf, makes me happy to buy them and let them sit for a while.

from ChristineEllei

Prospect is a small, isolated village on Cape Cod. For as long as anyone can remember the fate of the village depended on the salt it produced. Salt always harvested by the Gilly women. Joanna and Claire Gilly both understand the importance of the salt, but could not be further apart in their att...

from John_Pappas

A somber but not depressing piece of magical realism. The story's magic is really a rather mundane prophetic side-bar that moves the main story along - salt. The main story is about redemption, history, and family change over time. While sad, the story never lags into melancholy bleakness and rem...

from Beamis12

I really enjoyed this book. The Tuners and the Gillys, old family residents of Prospect, a village in Cape Cod. The Gillys belong to the salt, salt is the magical element in this book that ties everything together, and the Turners want to own the whole town. Loved the character development in thi...