Oh my gosh... what a wonderful book! Tiffany Baker has written an entertaining, engaging, and intriguing story of small-town life on Cape Cod, mixing reality, mysticism, and religion to create a novel that I just couldn't put down.
Jo and Claire Gilly live on the salt farm in Prospect, a sad little coastal New England town. The other townspeople aren't quite sure what to make of the sisters, and question whether or not they're witches and if the salt itself might be magical. Jo is at home on the farm, one with the salt, but Claire yearns to escape to something better. A horrible fire, and rich-boy Whit Turner, make that escape possible, and the sisters don't speak for years. Then Dee moves to town with her father who opens a diner, Claire's high-school sweetheart returns, and all of their lives are changed.
I loved the way this book was written, told in turn from all three of the women's perspectives, and dipping back-and-forth in time, which only added to the magical quality. And the characters are strong, distinct, and interesting - there are no cookie-cutters here. I also liked that the story is set in the era before cellphones and laptops became ubiquitous - that's something else, I think, that adds to the magical feeling.
It's not a particularly happy story, but it's super entertaining. I highly recommend it, and I'll be looking for other books by Baker.
The Gilly Salt Sisters
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