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samarareads 's review for:

The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
4.0

This was a difficult read. And by that I mean I had to read the first chapter about 3 times before I understood what was going on.

Toni Cade Bambara writes in an unconventional way. Interweaving dialogue with thoughts with events in the room, memory, events across the street, conversations with spirit guides.

But once I got used to her writing style, I was able to enjoy the narrative. Of the weary activist with a fractured mind finding restoration in Black feminine spirituality. Of the weary town, with a fractured communities finding restoration in the same.