The Salt Compass

Idris Halloway—2016

This edition collects forty-two pages of new material, including a cut opening chapter, a conversation with the translator, annotated charts from the original voyage, and a reader's guide. On the tidal flats of Vessing, where the water withdraws two miles at dawn and returns without warning, a family of salvage divers keeps a ledger of everything the sea gives back — until the ledger begins listing objects that have not yet been lost. Show more