The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara Material:Paperback ” We’re afraid of being

” We’re afraid of being different

many Indigenous Americans and people of African descent intermarried and socialized more often than is acknowledged by mainstream history books and scholars

A Harper Perennial Deluxe Modern Classic

when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic

The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara Material:Paperback ” We’re afraid of beingA community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this hard nosed, wise, funny novel (Los Angeles Times). Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off balance;