Taste of Salt - Paperback

from chaostheory08

* In compliance with FTC guidelines, it should be noted that I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads. The Taste of Salt is a story of Josie and her family's struggles with alcoholism and addiction. Josie Henderson is a successful marine biologist originally from landlocked Clev...

from whitreidtan

My family's always maintained that you are either a lake person or an ocean person (assuming you like the water, I guess). I've always been a lake person. I don't particularly like the taste of salt water and I loathe sand. I grew up paddling around in fresh water and yet when I learned to scuba ...

from penguinasana

I really liked the premise of the book and the depictions of addiction, both from the addict and addict's family. However, the jumping between different perspectives didn't work so well. While it was really readable, the book did a lot more telling than showing and ended abruptly and unsatisfying...

from nbmars

Josie Henderson, 36, is the only black senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. Her husband Danny, who is white, is also a scientist there. Her marriage isn't satisfying to her; she feels hungers that she can't express with Danny, who is a quiet loving man who ...

from viviennestrauss

This book fell into my hands this morning, the author previously unknown to me. I guessed that I would like her writing because another favorite author of mine (Dan Chaon) wrote one of the blurbs. What I didn't guess was that once I started reading, I wouldn't be able to put it down until I finis...