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    The Gilly Salt Sisters
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    The Gilly Salt Sisters

    Written by Tiffany Baker

    Narrated by Angela Brazil

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    About this audiobook

    The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic-tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm.

    In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her family's salt farm, while Claire is popular, pretty, and yearns to flee the salt at any cost. But the Gilly land hides a dark legacy that proves impossible to escape. Although the community half-suspects the Gilly sisters might be witches, it doesn't stop Whit Turner, the town's wealthiest bachelor, from forcing his way into their lives. It's Jo who first steals Whit's heart, but it is Claire--heartbroken over her high school sweetheart--who marries him.

    Years later, estranged from her family, Claire finds herself thrust back onto the farm with the last person she would have chosen: her husband's pregnant mistress. Suddenly, alliances change, old loves return, and new battle lines are drawn. What the Gilly sisters learn about each other, the land around them, and the power of the salt, will not only change each of their lives forever, it will also alter Gilly history for good.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMar 14, 2012
    ISBN9781611135725
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    • 4/5
      This book started very slow, but ended with a bang and I'm so glad I stuck wit hit. Another one of those books that has been on my TBR shelf since it came out, March 2012, but I'm always glad to find a gem on the shelf, makes me happy to buy them and let them sit for a while.
    • 4/5
      This was an audio "read" for me. I didn't care much for the narrator-mispronunciations, voice inflections that seemed "off"- and it almost made me not care for the book. But the story was great--I wish I had read the book instead. It's about two sisters parting ways and then suddenly coming back together again and trying to make the most of life's double whammies, namely heartache, death, tragic accidents and loneliness. I almost hated to "hear" it end.
    • 3/5
      The Gilly women work in salt. Owners of Salt Creek Farm, the women undertake backbreaking labor to harvest salt from their marsh. And every December Eve, it is their duty to throw a small packet of salt into the celebratory bonfire to predict the future of their tiny Cape Code community of Prospect. Because of this long tradition and because the salt is believed to have mysterious qualities, the Gilly women are feared rather than loved—necessary for the town’s well-being, but outside its community all the same. Claire Gilly has always longed for more, ever since childhood. She rejected the salt and rejected her family and, after a disastrous accident that left her sister Jo scarred by fire, Claire married Whit Turner, a scion of the wealthiest family in town, leaving the salt marsh for good. But the salt wasn’t done with her, it seems. Long-buried family secrets come to the fore when teenaged Dee ends up pregnant by Claire’s husband and Claire’s first true love, now a priest, returns to town.Whimsical and dark by turns, The Gilly Salt Sisters is not quite as strong as Baker’s debut, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County. However, the characters are nuanced and the atmosphere and setting are evocative and sharply drawn. There is much to enjoy here.
    • 4/5
      This was my first book by Tiffany Baker. I liked her writing style and her story about two sisters living on a salt mine in Cape Cod, MA (the state where I grew up). Baker uses a lot of magical realism and also incorporates some hard-to-believe secrets into the narrative. Overall, I really enjoyed this story and would be interested in checking out more books by this author.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The Tuners and the Gillys, old family residents of Prospect, a village in Cape Cod. The Gillys belong to the salt, salt is the magical element in this book that ties everything together, and the Turners want to own the whole town. Loved the character development in this novel, how they change with the circumstances and the trails they face. Shifting alliances, secrets revealed and tragedies, kept me reading to the end. Love magical realism when it is done well and this one certainly was. Will appeal to fans of Alice Hoffman, Aimee Bender and Sarah Addison Allen. Now I need to read Baker's first book.
    • 4/5
      A somber but not depressing piece of magical realism. The story's magic is really a rather mundane prophetic side-bar that moves the main story along - salt. The main story is about redemption, history, and family change over time. While sad, the story never lags into melancholy bleakness and remains delightfully bittersweet and hopeful right until the end. The overall conflict of the book is pragmatic - cursed perception vs. blessed, home safety vs. feral freedom, family vs. strangers, love vs. security. All with the specter of one mythical hell-storm of a night that left the taste of salt on the tongues of two families and their descendants.

      The story was predictable in a sense that the author didn't bother hiding the ending. It was there for you to see it if you wanted to focus. But the predictability didn't take away from the writing and the development. In a "journey over the destination" sort of way it was pleasant.

      Two early images really sold me on this book and encouraged me to finish - the image of a faceless and evolving Virgin Mother statue(at both eerie and peaceful)and the controlling power of the salt over those in the town.