In an uncommon mosaic of fiction and commentary, a new writer brilliantly explores the conflict between a woman's mundane secular life and her passionate longing for spirituality. . A Woman of Salt opens with Ruth VanderZicht receiving the news that ...
For readers of Allan Gurganus and John Kennedy Toole, stories set in a small Southern town where a young Jewish doctor tries to bring compassion and science to a cast of misfits, loners, and eccentrics. A one-hundred-and-fourteen-year-old woman livin...