The House on Salt Hay Road

Long 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.

Author: Carin Clevidence
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 05/24/2011
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780312572969

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/03/2011 pg. 117
New York Times Book Review 08/21/2011 pg. 32

About the Author

Carin Clevidence has won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her stories have been published in a number of journals. The House on Salt Hay Road is her first novel.

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