Stunning, vividly drawn, and woven with mysticism and folklore, The Salt God's Daughter is an unforgettable tale of female rites of passage, family secrets and the enduring bonds between mothers and daughters. Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, this modern-day fairy tale follows two sisters as they carve out a life in a world filled with meteorological discoveries and homespun folklore, where everyday survival reveals startling discoveries about the nature of love. Raised by a mother drawn to the ocean and guided by the moon, the girls' heritage is a mystery and in her absence, they are forced to confront the social mores of the time as they search for a place to call home. Written in a language that is altogether real and imagined, The Salt God's Daughter is a raw, evolutionary tale about the ties that bind, and how far we'll go to save the ones we love.
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"It's luxuriant writing, thoughtful, pleasingly moody, rustled through with wind. Yet, no matter how surreal the story becomes, it offers real places, every day truth." --Beth Kephart, author of Small Damages
"When a blue moon rises, mistakes can be undone, lost children can find their homes, and sea lions can shed their skins. The selkie myth lies at the heart of Ruby's (The Language of Trees, 2010) second novel.... This is a bewitching tale of lives entangled in lushly layered fables of the moon and sea."--Kirkus Reviews
"Certainly other readers have had this experience: you discover a book that is thrilling in its truth about the world, a book that captures your imagination so completely that you actually feel scared by the thought you might have never held this book in your hands... The Salt God's Daughter is that kind of book."-S. Berlain, The Rumpus
"When a blue moon rises, mistakes can be undone, lost children can find their homes, and sea lions can shed their skins. The selkie myth lies at the heart of Ruby's (The Language of Trees, 2010) second novel.... This is a bewitching tale of lives entangled in lushly layered fables of the moon and sea."--Kirkus Reviews
"Certainly other readers have had this experience: you discover a book that is thrilling in its truth about the world, a book that captures your imagination so completely that you actually feel scared by the thought you might have never held this book in your hands... The Salt God's Daughter is that kind of book."-S. Berlain, The Rumpus
Praise for The Salt God's Daughter
“…a lyrical, luxuriantly mystical meditation on being female. The Salt God's Daughter is astonishing and unusual because selkies--mythical shape-shifting creatures who are human beings on land and seals in the water--are part of the story. In the otherworldly universe Ruby creates, the existence of selkies do not detract from the authenticity of the characters. Quite the opposite: the myth sharpens the characters' humanity… Ruby's novel comes as close as possible to achieving a deep understanding of the possibilities of being female.” —Leora Tanebaum, The Huffington Post
"Ruby’s second novel (after The Language of Trees) imbues the complex relationships between mothers and daughters with legends and feminist mysticism . . . Ruby’s writing is elegant and insightful...” —Publishers Weekly
"The book beautifully evokes scenes of two girls adrift in the late 70s and early 80s bohemian beach culture...the result is a breathtaking, fiercely feminine take on American magical realism. Ruby spins sweeping mythologies without straying far from the story of a young woman just trying to survive." —Interview Magazine
"Lushly woven with elements of folklore, Ruby’s novel is a captivating inquiry into the generational, wayward bonds of mothers and daughters."—Booklist
“This is a bewitching tale of lives entangled in lushly layered fables of the moon and sea.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The characters and the setting hunger for each other …the ocean is everywhere, its saltiness fills the pages, lingers on the characters… Lovely in its complexity, Ruby has written in many layers. Yes, her book is mystical and fanciful, but at the same time it is intensely raw, and often unsettling.” —Bookslut
“Certainly other readers have had this experience: you discover a book that is thrilling in its truth about the world, a book that captures your imagination so completely that you actually feel scared by the thought you might have never held this book in your hands; that you might have missed it completely. Ilie Ruby’s The Salt God’s Daughter is that kind of book.” —Stacy Bierlein, The Rumpus
“Three generations of indelibly original women wrestle with the confines of their lives against a shimmering backdrop of magic, folklore, and deep-buried secrets. About the bonds of sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the refusal to accept limits, this is a story as heartbreaking, gritty, magical, and real as a waking dream, with a sense of place so immediate, you can feel the ocean’s salt spray. To say I loved this book is an understatement.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You
“Open The Salt God's Daughter and it is as if you are walking through a door, where things are at once utterly recognizable and utterly mysterious, like life, and like an ancient fairy tale, or a myth from a lost continent, another time and place. Ilie Ruby offers up a story that is both exquisitely fantastical at the same time that it maintains the feel of unblinking realism. This one's a story in which to lose one's self in the best possible way.” —Joyce Maynard
“Magical and gripping, The Salt God's Daughter captivated me from the very first sentence and has stayed with me long after I finished reading. A lyrical exploration of the timeless search for belonging and the complicated bonds between mothers, daughters and sisters, I devoured the novel in one sitting and then immediately ordered copies for my own mother and sister." —Jillian Cantor, author of The Transformation of Things
“Propulsive, mythic, and rhythmically mastered....a singular, knock-out work of fiction about love and the evolution of identity." —James Ragan
"What a rare pleasure this novel is, a kind of embarrassment of riches, Ilie Ruby has given us a work glowing with the emotive illuminations of two sisters, caught in exile, in homelessness, in a parentless subculture which they both survive by the pure transcendent powers of their personal fantasy-life and myth. The bond of sisterhood prevails. I cannot recommend this passionate look at family and society and outcast-ness enough. To be a part of their journey is to look at our own travels through deprivation, rejection, poverty and find their quiet ultimate triumph, to feel their fulfillment, as if it were our own. I look forward to what this talented writer offers us next!" —Leora Skolkin-Smith author of Hysteria
"Ruby's book is an eloquent unfolding of language brilliantly crafted. The Salt God's Daughter is beautiful writing of life, love, relationships between mother and daughter, families of one's own making, and the push/pull of the moon on the course of relationships. Lovely!"-Katherine Pinard, McIntyre's Books
“…a lyrical, luxuriantly mystical meditation on being female. The Salt God's Daughter is astonishing and unusual because selkies--mythical shape-shifting creatures who are human beings on land and seals in the water--are part of the story. In the otherworldly universe Ruby creates, the existence of selkies do not detract from the authenticity of the characters. Quite the opposite: the myth sharpens the characters' humanity… Ruby's novel comes as close as possible to achieving a deep understanding of the possibilities of being female.” —Leora Tanebaum, The Huffington Post
"Ruby’s second novel (after The Language of Trees) imbues the complex relationships between mothers and daughters with legends and feminist mysticism . . . Ruby’s writing is elegant and insightful...” —Publishers Weekly
"The book beautifully evokes scenes of two girls adrift in the late 70s and early 80s bohemian beach culture...the result is a breathtaking, fiercely feminine take on American magical realism. Ruby spins sweeping mythologies without straying far from the story of a young woman just trying to survive." —Interview Magazine
"Lushly woven with elements of folklore, Ruby’s novel is a captivating inquiry into the generational, wayward bonds of mothers and daughters."—Booklist
“This is a bewitching tale of lives entangled in lushly layered fables of the moon and sea.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The characters and the setting hunger for each other …the ocean is everywhere, its saltiness fills the pages, lingers on the characters… Lovely in its complexity, Ruby has written in many layers. Yes, her book is mystical and fanciful, but at the same time it is intensely raw, and often unsettling.” —Bookslut
“Certainly other readers have had this experience: you discover a book that is thrilling in its truth about the world, a book that captures your imagination so completely that you actually feel scared by the thought you might have never held this book in your hands; that you might have missed it completely. Ilie Ruby’s The Salt God’s Daughter is that kind of book.” —Stacy Bierlein, The Rumpus
“Three generations of indelibly original women wrestle with the confines of their lives against a shimmering backdrop of magic, folklore, and deep-buried secrets. About the bonds of sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the refusal to accept limits, this is a story as heartbreaking, gritty, magical, and real as a waking dream, with a sense of place so immediate, you can feel the ocean’s salt spray. To say I loved this book is an understatement.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You
“Open The Salt God's Daughter and it is as if you are walking through a door, where things are at once utterly recognizable and utterly mysterious, like life, and like an ancient fairy tale, or a myth from a lost continent, another time and place. Ilie Ruby offers up a story that is both exquisitely fantastical at the same time that it maintains the feel of unblinking realism. This one's a story in which to lose one's self in the best possible way.” —Joyce Maynard
“Magical and gripping, The Salt God's Daughter captivated me from the very first sentence and has stayed with me long after I finished reading. A lyrical exploration of the timeless search for belonging and the complicated bonds between mothers, daughters and sisters, I devoured the novel in one sitting and then immediately ordered copies for my own mother and sister." —Jillian Cantor, author of The Transformation of Things
“Propulsive, mythic, and rhythmically mastered....a singular, knock-out work of fiction about love and the evolution of identity." —James Ragan
"What a rare pleasure this novel is, a kind of embarrassment of riches, Ilie Ruby has given us a work glowing with the emotive illuminations of two sisters, caught in exile, in homelessness, in a parentless subculture which they both survive by the pure transcendent powers of their personal fantasy-life and myth. The bond of sisterhood prevails. I cannot recommend this passionate look at family and society and outcast-ness enough. To be a part of their journey is to look at our own travels through deprivation, rejection, poverty and find their quiet ultimate triumph, to feel their fulfillment, as if it were our own. I look forward to what this talented writer offers us next!" —Leora Skolkin-Smith author of Hysteria
"Ruby's book is an eloquent unfolding of language brilliantly crafted. The Salt God's Daughter is beautiful writing of life, love, relationships between mother and daughter, families of one's own making, and the push/pull of the moon on the course of relationships. Lovely!"-Katherine Pinard, McIntyre's Books
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Folklore for this book is rooted in the myth of the selkies, an enduring tale from childhood that I learned from a folksong called "The Selkie of Sule Skerry." The novel also borrows from Jewish mysticism about the Shekhina.
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Ilie Ruby is the author of THE SALT GOD'S DAUGHTER (Counterpoint 9/2012) and THE LANGUAGE OF TREES (Harper 2010). She is the winner of the Edwin L. Moses Award for Fiction, chosen by T.C. Boyle, and is the former fiction editor of The Southern California Anthology, a literary magazine. She has worked as a 5th grade teacher, a painter, and is an avid supporter of literacy efforts in Ethiopia. She lives in Boston with her husband and three children.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully written, poetically articulate and refreshing in its uniqueness!
September 4, 2012
Format:Hardcover
I might never have reached for this novel on a display and I would have lost something!
Ilie Ruby's second novel - The Salt's God Daughter - (the first one was called 'The Languages of Trees) is stunning in its creativity!
Too often we pick up a book whose scenario is so predictable we anticipate its development after the first or second chapter. In this instance be prepared for the unexpected for this author's perception of society reveals our most inner thoughts.
Inspired partly by the Selkie lore the story transcends over three generations of women, each different yet each of them an extension of the other.
Beautifully written, poetically articulate and refreshing in its uniqueness you might wonder why you never heard of this author before.
Here is an excerpt to help you see what I mean:
'I recalled how my eyes had followed the swan like neck of a ballerina, the pink blossoms on her flushed cheeks, the rest of her captured in strumming white-gold strokes. below, a rectangle of light on the hardwood floor, and the barre, touched with gold, too. The ballerina's lip would part slightly, her fingers caught in that space. I'd examined a certain dark lavender hue, deciding that a flat brush had been used. I defined form in terms of instruments used to create it. As I paged through books, I hunted for patterns and repetitions, just as I did with my mother's almanacs. A blue lavender hue might trail above a fire near a hearth, and also make up the iron tub where a different woman hitched her foot and unrolled her stockings before she stepped into her bath.'
Ilie Ruby's novel is certain to capture your imagination with her descriptions of Diana, Ruthie and Naida, the past, the present and the future.
Diana is the wanderer, a product of the troubled sixties, a struggling single mother who follows the Farmer's Almanac predictions, a traveler living day by day in 'Big Ugly', a green station wagon with her two daughters. The moons balances her life, around her neck you would see a St Augustine medal and a Star of David.
Ruth and her sister Dolly live a wild childhood caring for their drunken mother, dodging social services and surviving somehow all sorts of deprivation but always together.
Ruth or Ruthie is the daughter who after a tragic event finds purpose in life and reaches out to others finding a fulfillment as a caregiver for those whom society has no place for.
Her one fear is the ocean...
Feeling rejected, unloved and yet full of hope, Ruthie meets mysterious Graham who seems to emerge from the ocean always carrying a wet suit only to disappear again and again. With him she learns to love again.
Months later Ruthie gives birth to a daughter she names Naida, meaning 'Hope' in Russian.
Naida is the child who is different...An excellent swimmer, the ocean and its creatures draws her powerfully...She lives in hope to meet one day her father...
Faced with prejudice Naida learns to be strong and discovers her place in this universe.
Ultimately individuality is often a stigma as we well know!
In this often emotional complex story you discover an inner depth of feelings you might never have thought you possess for Ilie Ruby holds your imagination with her recounting of people bound together by love and the many lives they touch as they travel along.
And like the call of a siren, you find yourself listening to The Salt God's Daughter mesmerizing message...
I received this book free from SPARKPOINT STUDIO as part of their blogger review program.
I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC 16 CFR, Part 255 'Guides concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising. I was not asked to write a positive review and all opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Ilie Ruby's second novel - The Salt's God Daughter - (the first one was called 'The Languages of Trees) is stunning in its creativity!
Too often we pick up a book whose scenario is so predictable we anticipate its development after the first or second chapter. In this instance be prepared for the unexpected for this author's perception of society reveals our most inner thoughts.
Inspired partly by the Selkie lore the story transcends over three generations of women, each different yet each of them an extension of the other.
Beautifully written, poetically articulate and refreshing in its uniqueness you might wonder why you never heard of this author before.
Here is an excerpt to help you see what I mean:
'I recalled how my eyes had followed the swan like neck of a ballerina, the pink blossoms on her flushed cheeks, the rest of her captured in strumming white-gold strokes. below, a rectangle of light on the hardwood floor, and the barre, touched with gold, too. The ballerina's lip would part slightly, her fingers caught in that space. I'd examined a certain dark lavender hue, deciding that a flat brush had been used. I defined form in terms of instruments used to create it. As I paged through books, I hunted for patterns and repetitions, just as I did with my mother's almanacs. A blue lavender hue might trail above a fire near a hearth, and also make up the iron tub where a different woman hitched her foot and unrolled her stockings before she stepped into her bath.'
Ilie Ruby's novel is certain to capture your imagination with her descriptions of Diana, Ruthie and Naida, the past, the present and the future.
Diana is the wanderer, a product of the troubled sixties, a struggling single mother who follows the Farmer's Almanac predictions, a traveler living day by day in 'Big Ugly', a green station wagon with her two daughters. The moons balances her life, around her neck you would see a St Augustine medal and a Star of David.
Ruth and her sister Dolly live a wild childhood caring for their drunken mother, dodging social services and surviving somehow all sorts of deprivation but always together.
Ruth or Ruthie is the daughter who after a tragic event finds purpose in life and reaches out to others finding a fulfillment as a caregiver for those whom society has no place for.
Her one fear is the ocean...
Feeling rejected, unloved and yet full of hope, Ruthie meets mysterious Graham who seems to emerge from the ocean always carrying a wet suit only to disappear again and again. With him she learns to love again.
Months later Ruthie gives birth to a daughter she names Naida, meaning 'Hope' in Russian.
Naida is the child who is different...An excellent swimmer, the ocean and its creatures draws her powerfully...She lives in hope to meet one day her father...
Faced with prejudice Naida learns to be strong and discovers her place in this universe.
Ultimately individuality is often a stigma as we well know!
In this often emotional complex story you discover an inner depth of feelings you might never have thought you possess for Ilie Ruby holds your imagination with her recounting of people bound together by love and the many lives they touch as they travel along.
And like the call of a siren, you find yourself listening to The Salt God's Daughter mesmerizing message...
I received this book free from SPARKPOINT STUDIO as part of their blogger review program.
I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC 16 CFR, Part 255 'Guides concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising. I was not asked to write a positive review and all opinions expressed are entirely my own.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Ana Lewis
Format:Hardcover
Ilie Ruby has spun a fabulous work with her book, The Salt God's Daughter. Thank you, Ilie for letting us get swept away by the oceans of your mind. After reading this book, I sat with the quiet acceptance of the differences in people in our lives. Not judging. Just grateful to Ilie for showing the inner beauty of all. The homeless, the impoverished, the physically different, the ignored, the castaway. What a mistake we make overlooking or judging. What a gift The Salt God's Daughter is to open our eyes and hearts to help us to see and love more deeply. In the Salt God's Daughter, Ilie gives unheard women a voice. Thank you.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Once in a Blue Moon, a hauntingly lyrical novel touches the essence of your innermost soul. For me, it is this novel which I read during the full Red Moon of August. I found it to be a thoroughly captivating, powerfully moving work of strikingly beautiful literary merit.
Ruthie and her older sister, Dolly, are the daughters of Diana, a woman of the mystical 1960s who consults full moon cycles in The Old Farmer's Almanac as she roams California coastal highways with her physically homeless children in Big Ugly. Diana struggles to find a lost love and assemble a "normal" life for her family as they journey on complex roads of life, finally landing at Dr. Brownstein's beach hotel. When young Diana dies, the two sisters of Jewish heritage fiercely cling protectively to one another, transitioning into womanhood, first at the Bethesda Home for Girls and then back at Dr. B's Wild Acres, where Ruthie becomes its caretaker and caregiver of aging residents. She falls in love with Graham, who, like her father, only appears during full moons and, after the birth of their daughter, Naida, mysteriously disappears. Naida has a webbed foot, an uncannily attraction to the ocean, an ability to commune with three "sister" sea lions", and a desperate desire to find out where--and what--her father really is.
Ruby deftly entwines Jewish-American tradition and culture with Celtic mythology, transcending what could have been a humdrum, feminist romance into a complex, mystically moving, spiritually uplifting novel. The Scotch/Irish legend of sea lions shedding skins each full moon to become human is integral to the plot set on California's coast. Are Ruthie's father and Graham such creatures? What draws Naida so strongly to the ocean in beautifully written scenes that wash over the reader like refreshing sprays of cooling, salt-scented waves? Why is her foot webbed, earning her the nickname "Frog Witch"? From whom did she inherit "Second Sight"--her grandmother or her father? And, in her all-consuming quest, does she find him?
Lyrically written, Ruby's major and minor themes fluidly ebb and flow like undulating ocean tides on sun-drenched beaches in this taut, multi-leveled novel of women transitioning from life into death; childhood into adulthood; youth into old; physical into spiritual; mother into daughter into mother. Characters and themes whirl together in vast, mysteriously multi-faceted deep seas of love; tightly knit together, wending, meshing, and symbolically connecting throughout this thoroughly gratifying and pleasurable read. This novel, however, requires careful thought and concentrated effort to capture, savor, and fully appreciate each subtle and delicate nuance in this prime example of literary mythical fiction at its finest.
Best enjoyed by mature audiences, this novel is the greatest end-of-summer read--preferably enjoyed poolside or sitting on the beach with bare feet cooling in wet sand. Keep your towel handy--it's a tear-jerker.
If The Sault God's Daughter isn't on the best seller lists by Harvest Moon, I'll be both surprised and disappointed.
This review was written by June J. McInerney, author of "The Basset Chronicles" and "Cats of Nine Tales".
Ruthie and her older sister, Dolly, are the daughters of Diana, a woman of the mystical 1960s who consults full moon cycles in The Old Farmer's Almanac as she roams California coastal highways with her physically homeless children in Big Ugly. Diana struggles to find a lost love and assemble a "normal" life for her family as they journey on complex roads of life, finally landing at Dr. Brownstein's beach hotel. When young Diana dies, the two sisters of Jewish heritage fiercely cling protectively to one another, transitioning into womanhood, first at the Bethesda Home for Girls and then back at Dr. B's Wild Acres, where Ruthie becomes its caretaker and caregiver of aging residents. She falls in love with Graham, who, like her father, only appears during full moons and, after the birth of their daughter, Naida, mysteriously disappears. Naida has a webbed foot, an uncannily attraction to the ocean, an ability to commune with three "sister" sea lions", and a desperate desire to find out where--and what--her father really is.
Ruby deftly entwines Jewish-American tradition and culture with Celtic mythology, transcending what could have been a humdrum, feminist romance into a complex, mystically moving, spiritually uplifting novel. The Scotch/Irish legend of sea lions shedding skins each full moon to become human is integral to the plot set on California's coast. Are Ruthie's father and Graham such creatures? What draws Naida so strongly to the ocean in beautifully written scenes that wash over the reader like refreshing sprays of cooling, salt-scented waves? Why is her foot webbed, earning her the nickname "Frog Witch"? From whom did she inherit "Second Sight"--her grandmother or her father? And, in her all-consuming quest, does she find him?
Lyrically written, Ruby's major and minor themes fluidly ebb and flow like undulating ocean tides on sun-drenched beaches in this taut, multi-leveled novel of women transitioning from life into death; childhood into adulthood; youth into old; physical into spiritual; mother into daughter into mother. Characters and themes whirl together in vast, mysteriously multi-faceted deep seas of love; tightly knit together, wending, meshing, and symbolically connecting throughout this thoroughly gratifying and pleasurable read. This novel, however, requires careful thought and concentrated effort to capture, savor, and fully appreciate each subtle and delicate nuance in this prime example of literary mythical fiction at its finest.
Best enjoyed by mature audiences, this novel is the greatest end-of-summer read--preferably enjoyed poolside or sitting on the beach with bare feet cooling in wet sand. Keep your towel handy--it's a tear-jerker.
If The Sault God's Daughter isn't on the best seller lists by Harvest Moon, I'll be both surprised and disappointed.
This review was written by June J. McInerney, author of "The Basset Chronicles" and "Cats of Nine Tales".
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The mythological is personal - and lovely!
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total lack of character development
I can't remember when it took me so long to read one book. I can't say I didn't like it entirely, but the extended imagery and non-stop magical occurrences were too much. Read more
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White Oleander meets Stein & Wolfe's Stream of Consciousness and...
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I just may have discovered a new favorite author. Beautifully written, this mysterious and ethereal book is White Oleander meets Stein and... Read more
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An incredibly written Novel to which should be feasted on by the brain...
*May contain SORTA SPOILERS (depending on the definition of "spoiler")*(then again who knows)
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Stream of consciousness styled women's fiction with a touch of myth.
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Mystic reality
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