![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The two women fall in love and set out on a road trip across the United States. Carol’s in her thirties and has been involved with women before, but Therese is, in modern parlance, a baby queer. The Price of Salt tells the story of Therese, an aspiring stage designer whose life is altered forever when Carol, a housewife in the midst of a bitter divorce, comes into the department store where she works. I was reading queer stories to teach myself how to write one. With that realization came a creative breakthrough: that my manuscript, a multi-vocal novel set at an art school, was at its heart a love story between its two female protagonists. For months, I’d been reading my way through the queer canon, having realized a year into my marriage that I was bisexual. I’d just begun an MFA and was working on a novel, but The Price of Salt wasn’t an assigned text for class. I paid 99 cents, plus $3.99 for shipping. Last year, I bought a secondhand copy of Patricia Highsmith’s iconic 1952 lesbian novel The Price of Salt. ![]()
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