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The story of the uprooted basket weaver is a parable for the kind of vessel that Monique Truong has fashioned in The Book of Salt. Against the odds, she has made unsettling art from precisely such exotic cuttings and transplantings. The Los Angeles Times - Carmela Ciuraru. 7 rows ·  · Truong coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Her first Brand: HMH Books.  · Bestsellers Book lists Best Of News Features. Popular Genres. General Fiction Nonfiction Teen Children's. Science Fiction Fantasy Mystery Thriller Romance. Browse by Content Type. Profiles Perspectives Awards Seen Heard. Book to Screen In the News Video Interviews Fully Booked Podcast.

Read "The Book of Salt A Novel" by Monique Truong available from Rakuten Kobo. A novel of Paris in the s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, by th. The Book of Salt PDF Book by Monique Truong () Download or Read Online Free. The Book of Salt PDF book by Monique Truong Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks. Published in April 7th the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fiction, historical books. The Book of Salt: A Novel - Kindle edition by Truong, Monique. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Book of Salt: A Novel.

The story of the uprooted basket weaver is a parable for the kind of vessel that Monique Truong has fashioned in The Book of Salt. Against the odds, she has made unsettling art from precisely such exotic cuttings and transplantings. The Los Angeles Times - Carmela Ciuraru. The Book of Salt is Vietnamese-American author Monique Truong's first novel; it presents a narrative through the eyes of Bình, a Vietnamese cook. His story centers in Paris in his life as the cook in the home of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and is supplemented by his memories of his childhood in French-colonial Vietnam. This book is structured as a stream of consciousness narrative, in which Bình's present circumstances are mixed with episodes from his past, showing bits and pieces. The Book of Salt is a novel by Monique Truong. The time period is the s and s and focuses on Binh, a young, gay Vietnamese cook living in French-colonized Vietnam who must flee Saigon.