A Mouth Full of Salt (Reem Gaafar)

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Winner of The Island Prize 2023 | top-tier Indie Bookshop Bestseller | A Shelterbox Book Club selection.n The Nile brought them life, but the Nile was not their friend.n When a little boy drowns in the treacherous currents of the Nile,n the search for his body unearths calamity and disaster, and exposes forgotten secrets buried for generations in a small northern Sudanese village.n Three women try to make their way through a world that wants to keep them back,n separated from each other by time but bound together by the same river that weaves its way through their lives, giving little but taking much more.n A Mouth Full of Salt uncovers a country on the brink of seismic change as its women decide for themselves which traditions are fit for purpose – and which prophecies it’s time to

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