Southgate, Martha.

The taste of salt : a novel / by Martha Southgate. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011. - 281 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes reading group guide.

"Josie Henderson is most at home in and around water, and as a senior-level black female scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she is practically alone in her field. But in building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family roots back in Cleveland. When Tick, her brother and childhood ally against their alcoholic father, arrives on her doorstep fresh from rehab and teetering on the edge of a relapse, Josie must finally face her family's past--and her own patterns of addiction."--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN: 9781565129252 (pbk.) 1565129253 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2011024615

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American families
Scientists

LC Class. No.: PS3569.O82 / T37 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54