{"product_id":"the-salt-laced-house","title":"The Salt-Laced House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe has come the long way to a whitewashed room above a cold northern sea.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=BmN14th4EviTJciL77yc8QnaeUC5DO8HPBTRuRlL7op\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHardcover coming soon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the back cover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has come the long way, by train, by bus, and on her own two feet, to a whitewashed room above a cold northern sea, carrying the one thing she could not name and could not set down. Here, where the tide folds in and pulls back and the light moves all day on the water, she means to be still. To be all right. She is nearly sure of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the sea keeps its own counsel, and the past arrives unannounced: in the whistle of a kettle, a voice humming just below the true note, a hand once laid over her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Salt-Laced House is a luminous, tender novel of the rooms we flee to and the ones we carry with us, and of how a life, like a coastline, is shaped as much by what the water takes as by what it leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn out from a story first published in Salt-Laced Pages and set among public-domain paintings chosen to match its weather, it is a quiet book for anyone who has ever gone away to be mended and found the mending slower, and stranger, and more merciful than they had planned. Includes the companion short story \u003cem\u003eThe Skin Beneath\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJessica von Braun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolocosmo Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull colour interior, 6 × 9, 78 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:1.6em;font-size:0.82em;line-height:1.5;color:#7a7168;text-align:left;\"\u003eCover art: \u003cem\u003eNarragansett Bay\u003c\/em\u003e, William Stanley Haseltine, 1864. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solocosmo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50144675561720,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0845\/2433\/5352\/files\/salt-laced-house-front.jpg?v=1786504996","url":"https:\/\/solocosmo.org\/products\/the-salt-laced-house","provider":"solocosmo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}