the salt fields

"The Salt Fields is a beautiful and powerful novella . . . with lyrical prose that had me spellbound from the first few sentences."

—Edan Lepucki, author of Time’s Mouth, Woman No. 17, and California

"A poignant exploration of desire, yearning, and hope."

—Maxine Chernoff, author of Here, Camera, Under the Music, and Bop

"A riveting story that mystifies even as more and more is revealed."

—Siel Ju, author of Cake Time

“The Salt Fields is a gem--the kind of book you'll want to underline, dog-ear, study, teach, and beg your friends to read, and Flood is a writer to watch.”

—Christina Clancy, author of The Second Home and Shoulder Season

“The Salt Fields will stay with you long after past the last page. Stacy Flood has written an extraordinary book.”

—Toni Mirosevich, author of Spell Heaven and Pink Harvest

“The Salt Fields is ethereal, dreamy, and haunting.”

—Juhea Kim, author of Beast of a Little Land

“Flood packs generations into a novella not much more than 100 pages long, with language cradling the horrific thorns of the past.”

—Shelf Awareness

“The Salt Fields is a bewitching, dangerous, and atmospheric novel.”

—Foreword Reviews

“The Salt Fields combines a reflective sensory experience with the cyclical nature of grief and rebirth in the Black experience in the South. It is a clever and engaging narrative… a thoughtful and nuanced book, interpreting loss not simply as destruction, but as an opportunity to gain something more.”

—Southern Review of Books

“Stacy D. Flood has a rare talent for writing scenes that stay with you and a unique ability to create lasting pictures in your mind… The scenes from this book vividly explode in your mind, and the writing evokes powerful emotion. This work is special. I highly recommend this novella to anyone who wants to read the work of a talented author.”

—Historical Novel Society

Now available through bookstores nationwide, Lanternfish Press, and Amazon, The Salt Fields chronicles this day’s journey of four African-American passengers — Minister, a soldier named Carvall, and the young couple Lanah and Divinion, each searching for a new life, but none sure of what that means — as they travel through a myriad of locations, histories, and events that shape who they are, what they dream, what they are escaping, who they will eventually become, and what experiences they will have to endure in order to do so.

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