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THIRST FOR SALT
THIRST FOR SALT is a heady, intoxicating exploration of age, of love and desire, and how women navigate their lives and relationships as mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers.
In THIRST FOR SALT, a beautifully evocative and quietly introspective novel, a young unnamed woman begins a love affair with Jude, a man nearly twenty years her senior. Set on a remote beach on the Australian coast, the narrator begins to neglect her other relationships as she grows closer to Jude, intent on peeling back his layers and desperate to be needed and loved with the utmost intensity. But when Jude's old friend Maeve enters their lives, the narrator feels that her and Jude's love is fragile, leading her to consider just what she'll do to preserve their tender, domestic intimacy. Years later, reflecting on this relationship, as well her childhood being raised by her impulsive, drifting mother, she begins to truly unravel and understand her own emotional and sexual coming of age.
Madelaine Lucas was born in Melbourne in 1990 and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a senior editor of the literary annual NOON, and a recent graduate from the fiction MFA program at Columbia University. Her essays and interviews have appeared in publications such as Paris Review Daily, The Believer, Literary Hub and elsewhere, and her fiction has been awarded Australia's Elizabeth Jolley Prize. She teaches workshops for adults and young people in creative writing programs at Columbia University and Catapult.
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Published 2023-03-07 by Tin House |