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The Salt God's daughter

Ruth and her older sister, Dolly, struggle for survival in a place governed by an enchanted ocean and exotic folklore after their mother, who was ruled by magic and elaborately-told stories of the full moons, which she drew form the "The Old Farmers Almanac" dies.

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Main Author: Ruby, Ilie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, c2012.
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Sisters > Fiction.
Magic > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
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Summary:Ruth and her older sister, Dolly, struggle for survival in a place governed by an enchanted ocean and exotic folklore after their mother, who was ruled by magic and elaborately-told stories of the full moons, which she drew form the "The Old Farmers Almanac" dies.
Physical Description:338 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781619020023
1619020025
Author Notes:Ilie Ruby grew up in Rochester, NY and lived in Long Beach, California, where she was a fifth grade teacher. She is the winner of the Edwin L. Moses Award for Fiction, chosen by T.C. Boyle; a Kerr Foundation Fiction Scholarship; and the Phi Kappa Phi Award for Creative Achievement in Fiction. She is also the winner of the Wesleyan Writer's Conference Davidoff Scholarship in Nonfiction and the Kemp Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship. She graduated from the Masters of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California where she held the position of fiction editor of The Southern California Anthology .

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