Heart and Salt

Elaina Battista-Parsons
Publication date: April, 2023
Genre: Literary Shorts
Paperback: ISBN: 978-3-98832-002-5​
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-98832-003-2
★★★★★ “Heart and Salt is an honest account of girlhood growing into womanhood, the femininity of each reaching out its hand for the other as if to say, We will get through this together.” Chimen Kouri, author of Peach Milk 

Camus once stated that fiction is a lie through which we tell the truth. The main characters in Heart and Salt all have truths, lies, and in-betweens, similar to every human being you’ve ever met. We all carry scraps of our past in our heart, the hope of the present in our palm, and the leftovers in our souls. 

Heart and Salt unwraps what is boxed tightly until it can’t be contained any longer—Charli tests her seemingly strong marriage, Genevieve investigates a crumbly old beach shack after decades of storms, February navigates a new friendship, and Feather can’t find her way out of the self-imposed “middle.” Every piece’s setting inhales and exhales as strongly as the people living within its walls, from backyards to kitchens to small towns, to cities. 

Dive deep into their heart, their salt, and their truths.
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