The Salt Path: A Memoir
Raynor Winn
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The Salt Path: A Memoir
Raynor Winn
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
[T]his is a damn good book. Plain and simple.
The Salt Path begins in the dark interior of a cramped closet, and ends in bright sunlight on a cliff above the sea. Taken together, the opening and closing scenes are symbolic of what this thoughtful memoir is about: coming out of darkness into light, moving from despair to serenity.
As they trek, the author’s disillusionment falls away. As though scrubbed clean by the salt air, she and Moth begin to cobble together plans for a new life. Though the two never seem to bicker, Winn quickly dispels romantic notions about the trip, describing pelting rains; cold, sleepless nights; and stomach-grinding hunger when they run out of food (or money). A beautifully written and deeply satisfying read..
Debut author Winn narrates a moving memoir of identities lost and found along England’s wind-swept South West Coast Path.