The Salt Eaters

Name: The Salt Eaters
Author: Toni Cade Bambara

by Toni Cade Bambara

Woman healer facilitates transformation and wholeness for struggling community

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Toni Cade Bambara

American novelist and short-story writer whose vibrant fiction celebrated Black community life and feminist politics. Gorilla, My Love is one of the most celebrated short-story collections in African American literature. Her novel The Salt Eaters won the American Book Award.

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Gorilla, My LoveStories of African American girls navigating childhood in voice-driven narratives
The Sea Birds Are Still AliveConnected stories of Vietnamese, African American, and Caribbean freedom struggles
Those Bones Are Not My ChildWoman reconstructs daughter's life after her death and discovery of truth