Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Saltus : a novel / Tara Gereaux.

by Gereaux, Tara, 1975-

View full image

Nightwood Editions, 2021.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Small town life -- Fiction.

Adolescence -- Fiction.

Coming of age -- Fiction.

Gender identity -- Fiction.

Saskatchewan -- Fiction.

9780889714007 (trade pbk.)

296 p. ; 22 cm.

Nothing ever seems to happen in the small town of Saltus. At the Harvest Gold Inn and Restaurant off Highway 53, two waitresses spend their evening shifts delivering Salisbury steak specials and slices of pie to the regulars. But everything changes when Nadine, a headstrong single mother, and her teenager, Aaron, arrive at the Gold, where Aaron―who has repeatedly been denied appropriate gender-affirming medical care from the mainstream system―undergoes a near-fatal procedure performed by an unqualified and eccentric recluse who lives on the outskirts of Saltus. The events that transpire that evening force each townsperson to look long and hard at themselves, at their own identities, and at the traumas and experiences that have shaped them. Told from multiple perspectives, Saltus reveals the complexities inherent in accepting the identities of loved ones, and the tragic consequences that unfold if they are ignored. It is a story about relationships with others, and, even more importantly, with ourselves.

Canadian fiction.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal