Details:
- author: Madelaine Lucas
- full title: Thirst for Salt
- narrator: Madelaine Lucas
- genre: literary fiction
- topics: #romance, #love, #relationships, #motherhood, #family
- publisher: Recorded Books
- publish date: 07 Mar 2023
- timing: 8:06:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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It's hard to remember now that I was once that girl in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait, he called me.
Excerpt from the Book:
Today I saw a picture of Jude with a child, not one of the fair-haired nieces I remember from photographs around the Old House, who would be grown by now, but a dark-haired little girl. Three or four years old. A Cupid's bow mouth, stained with berries at the creases. Jude's lips.
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It was something in the way he held her - that's how I knew she was his. Not composed and smiling, the way you would be when holding someone else's child to show that everyone is having a good time. They were caught off guard, Jude with his back to the camera and the girl in his arms-she was peering over his shoulder at whoever was taking the picture. He'd turned, just at the moment the shutter fell. His lips parted, as if about to speak.
My Thoughts:
Thirst for Salt is a novel about love and motherhood. It is a story about a 24-year-old woman that falls in love with a 42-year-old man. Told in somewhat melancholic poetic prose about their time together and how their relationship developed in roughly one year.
The author narrates this audiobook, which adds value to this novel. Thirst for Salt is a quick read or listen with beautiful prose that, in an audiobook format, often sounds like an extended lyrical poem.
About the Author:
Madelaine Lucas is a senior editor of NOON and teaches fiction at Columbia University. She is from Sydney, Australia, and lives in Brooklyn.
