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    The Salt House: A Novel

    Written by Lisa Duffy

    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard

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    In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have settled down to a life of wedded bliss. They have a beautiful family, a growing lobster business, and the Salt House - an oceanfront cottage they're renovating into their dream home. But tragedy strikes when their young daughter doesn't wake up from her afternoon nap, taking her last breath without making a sound.

    A year later each member of the Kelly family navigates the world on their own private island of grief. Hope spends hours staring at her daughter's ashes, unable to let go. Jack works to the point of exhaustion in an attempt to avoid his crumbling marriage. Their daughters, Jess and Kat, struggle to come to terms with the loss of their younger sister while watching their parents fall apart. But when Jack's fishing territory is threatened, emotions ignite, and the result will either tear the Kelly family apart or bring them back together.

    Told in alternating voices, The Salt House is a gorgeously written heartbreaking yet hopeful debut.

    ©2017 Lisa Duffy (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 13, 2017
    ISBN9781520073286
    Author

    Lisa Duffy

    Lisa Duffy is the author of The Salt House, named by Real Simple as a Best Book of the Month upon its June release and one of Bustle’s 17 Best Debut Novels by Women in 2017, and This is Home, a favorite book club pick. Lisa received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts. Her writing can be found in numerous publications, including Writer’s Digest. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. My Kind of People is her third novel.

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    • 4/5
      First thank you to Net Galley for my advanced copy. This book is about emotions. It's a book about a tragic loss and what happens to the family afterwards. Sadness, guilt, grief and forgiveness are the main themes. It was a good read and a hard read for me. I enjoyed the book and Lisa Duffy's style of writing.
    • 5/5
      Wow, an emotionally charged, wonderfully written book that I just devoured. I could not put this book down. Kudos to the author on a great debut. A great story about a family dealing with a lot of things coming at them head on in their day to day life.I highly recommend this book to everyone who loves to read books about family, human emotions, love, feelings, and day to day life.Thanks to Touchstone and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 4/5
      3.5 A family attempts to overcome their grief in the face of a terrible loss, the death of their youngest daughter. We hear from each of the family members; Jack, a lobster trapper, Hope, who cannot come to terms with how the death occured and her guilt, eldest daughter Jess, who is the keeper of secrets, including her burgeoning love for Alex and the youngest, at 8, trying to understand the things she overhears. Jack has some darkness in his past which will be reawakened when an old enemy shows up at a dinner party.I loved the setting for this, coastal Maine and the salt house on the water, a house they were refurbishing when the tragedy stuck. The difficult and competitive life of those who need to make their living from the water. A clear and concise writing style but though hearing from each character gave us an overview of each character and how they were thinking, dealing with their grief, I also felt it kept me from fully engaging with them. I actually liked two of the secondary characters better, Boon and Hopes mother were the two that came alive in my mind.This is a good, solid story and others may have better luck in connecting with these characters. This is, however, a poignant look at a family trying to stay together while facing the worst kind of adversity.ARC from Netgalley.
    • 4/5
      For a minute there, I was bookclub-aholic (that should really be a word). I got sucked into every book club that had the same interests as me on Goodreads. I found TONS of them, joined, and jumped in head first. And let me tell you, IT IS EXHAUSTING!

      I am the current Vice President of my school's book club and was the President last academic year. We put in a lot of work deciding on books, making polls, reaching out to members, designing challenges and games to spark interest and activity, and bless anyone that is tasked with that job.

      Needless to say, I had to quit some of the clubs I was a part of. There were too many notifications on my phone/computer/tablet, too many books that I "had" to read, and just not enough time spent on reading. How can anyone one person read that many books! It's impossible, BUT I found something AMAZING in the process.

      SHE READS!

      Shereads.org, if you don't know, is an international book club started by two amazing women that love books. How can that be any better? After I found them, The Salt House was their book of the month. Not typically my go-to read, but that's what is great about book clubs, sometimes you read something outside of your comfort zone and end up absolutely loving it.

      I really enjoyed this one and I hated it for making me cry!!!!

      I'm not one for providing a big synopsis (you can look that up on Goodreads that easily enough) so here's the nitty-gritty on how this novel just touched my soul and shredded to pieces, only to glue it back together in the end.

      This story circles around a family suffering the loss of a child and it is heart-wrenching. Whether you have kids or not, you can feel this family's grief. Every surviving member is suffering in one way or another and they are drifting apart, but in the end family is more than blood and they find their way back together.

      The chapters are split up to provide each character's perspective, which I love by the way. I was able to see what each character thought of the same situation and the chapters that were in Hope's perspective, the mother, had me crying almost every time. I felt like I was Hope and it hurt, Dear Lord, did it hurt. I had to convince myself to read but not because the story was horrible or poorly written, but because I didn't want to be sitting in my bed ugly crying over my kindle... it isn't waterproof after all. I knew it was going to be a tough one, but jeez the emotions smacked me right in the face and hit me over the back of my head.

      And Kat. Wonderful, innocent, and beautiful Kat. I forget how simple things are to children at times and her childlike view of events never once felt like a work of fiction.

      What I appreciated the most about this novel is its attention to the grieving process. For each family member, it was different. Some were ready to move on more quickly while others where just trying to stay afloat. Life still happens, school resumes, jobs require attention, and bills have to be paid, and this novel recognized that and showed it all.

      Just thinking about it, makes me get a little teary-eyed, but it was so well-written that I welcomed the tears in the end.

      There is a "happy" ending of sorts as well. Of course, nothing can bring back the youngest family member, but everyone overcomes the debilitating aspects of grief and welcomes their new lives to come. It is about life, love, hope, and family.

      Now, here's the bad news (sort of) She Reads is no longer doing selections. Gasp! But, as of this posting, they are "going forward by going back," and I understand that completely. What started out as a couple of women savoring their latest read turned into constant requests by authors to have their books the focal point of the club and that can get exhausting.

      I'm glad I came across them when I did and I look forward to anything they share in the future. They introduced me to a book a little out of my comfort zone and I thank them for that.
    • 4/5
      Hope and Jack Kelly’s marriage has hit a speed bump. Hope has been depressed since the tragic death of their youngest daughter. She cannot move forward from her grief and is unable to continue her work as a writer. The family is struggling to pay their bills due to renovations on their second home named, “The Salt House”. They can’t seem to finish the construction which forces them to continue making payments for two homes. Jack works as a lobsterman in Maine and is part owner of the business. Work has helped him avoid his grief and to ignore his marital problems. His two teenage daughters are in the background watching their parent’s marriage implode. Jack's feels threatened when his high school rival, Finn, moves back to town and makes claims to their family’s lobster business. The added stress begins to build and Jack lashes out at family and friends. His unresolved grief and hidden secrets are in need of an outlet. The Salt House is an interesting perspective of how burying problems can lead to deep rooted consequences. This is portrayed very clearly as each family member of the Kelly household narrates a chapter from their perspectives. This is a debut novel by Lisa Duffy.