Actresses Kerry Washington and Viola Davis were attached to star.įoreign that work she won the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent. In 2013 plans for an adaptation of Southgate's novel Third Girl from the Left were announced. Southgate's most recent novel, The Taste of Salt was published in 2011 by Algonquin Books. Her third novel, Third Girl from the Left, was published in 2005. Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the words of Julia Glass, can write fat and hot, then lush and tender, then just plain truthful and burning with heart ) now tells the story of a family pushed to its limits by addiction over the course of two generations. In 2002 she released The Fall of Rome: A Novel, set in a New England college prep school. Southgate's first novel Another Way to Dance, about a 14-year-old black aspiring ballerina, was published in 1997 by Delacorte Press. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence. She attended Smith College before obtaining an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard. Martha Southgate is an African-American novelist and essayist best known for her novel Third Girl from the Left. Weaving four voices into a beautiful tapestry, Southgate charts the lives of the Hendersons from the parents’ first charmed meeting to Josie’s realization that the ways of the human heart are more complex than anything seen under a microscope.

Now Tick himself has been coming apart and demands to be heard. Her adored brother, Tick, was her childhood ally as they watched their drinking father push away all the love that his wife and children were trying to give him. In building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family back in landlocked Cleveland. Josie Henderson loves the water and is fulfilled by her position as the only senior-level black scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the wo.)Īward-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the words of Julia Glass, “can write fat and hot, then lush and tender, then just plain truthful and burning with heart”) now tells the story of a family pushed to its limits by addiction over the course of two generations.

Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate