The Gilly Salt Sisters by Tiffany Baker
It is no surprise that this book is about the
Gilly Salt sisters given the name of course.
One sister knows that her life will be spent on their farm, one knows
her life will be anywhere but. The farm is located in an isolated village on
Cape Cod. Joanna, Claire and their
mother live and work on their salt farm. No man seems to be able to survive on
this farm. Their brother Henry died at
an early age and their father ran off never to be seen or heard from again. The
salt produced on the farm has a very strong effect on these women and the
people living in the village. In fact,
every December the town holds a big bonfire and one of the Gilly Girls throw
salt on the fire. The color of the
flames determines a lot of what will happen in the next year. The salt has also had an effect on the economy of the businesses in town. Those businesses that sold or used the salt seem to do well. If they turned their back on the salt there were consequences.
I really don’t want to say too much about the book
because I would give the whole thing away and then what fun would that be. All I will say is that the story had some
surprising twists. Some of them I admit
I figured out but some took me till the end of the book to see where the author
was going. It still was a great summer
read.
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