The Salt Eaters [SEP] publisher
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Bambara, Toni Cade. "The Salt Eaters", Random House, 1980.
The Salt Eaters
The Salt Eaters is a 1980 novel, the first such work by Toni Cade Bambara. The novel is written in an experimental style and is explicitly political in tone, with several of the characters being veterans of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It is set in the fictional town of Claybourne, Georgia.
Plot.
The novel opens on Minnie Ransom, the "fabled healer of the district", performing a healing on Velma Henry who