The House on Salt Hay Road
A Novel
Carin Clevidence
Picador
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On Sale: 05/24/2011
ISBN: 9780312572969
304 PagesLong Island, 1938. A fireworks factory explodes in a quiet coastal town. In the house on Salt Hay Road, Clay Poole is thrilled by the hole it's blown in everyday life. His older sister, Nancy, is more interested in the striking stranger who appears, dusted with ashes, in the explosion's aftermath. The Pooles—taken in as orphans by their mother's family—can't yet know how the bonds of their makeshift household will be tested and frayed. A vivid and emotionally resonant debut, The House on Salt Hay Road captures the golden light of a vanished time, and the hold that home has on us long after we leave it.
Spring 1937
The sound was the loudest Clayton Poole had ever heard, the
noise he imagined a bomb would make if the Huns attacked
Long Island. Twelve years old, a sturdy boy with freckles...
Praise for The House on Salt Hay Road
“A breathtaking new American voice.” —Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Unaccustomed Earth
“The fireworks in Carin Clevidence's first novel, The House on Salt Hay Road, come early, but the novel keeps a steady flame burning until its final scenes. . . . She has a gift for creating images that express the unspeakable.” —The New York Times
“Spellbinding.” —Marie Claire
“The landscape is inseparable from the cycle of catastrophe and creation in this vivid novel. ” —Los Angeles Times
“Lovely. . . Reading it, you can almost taste the clean, salty air of the South Shore. . . Clevidence's prose is, like the place she writes about, simple and precise. ” —The Miami Herald
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