A review by bookishnik
The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate

3.0

Josie Henderson, a young African American, has become the woman she always dreamed of becoming. She is a marine biologist and lives a quiet life with her husband in a small town in Massachusetts. However, she harbors insecurities originating from her upbringing back in Cleveland. This story explores alcoholism and drug addition and how it impacts the addict and their loved ones. The author misses the mark on integrating the multiple point of views into this novel. I have read many novels with expertly delivered multiple third person narratives, but this one was a first person narrative in which the protagonist also tells the story from the other characters viewpoint. Fail! However, I did really like this story and how all the characters are flawed and there is no happy ending. Such is life.