Georgina and her twin sister, Mary, have one last summer to themselves on the island before they go off to different colleges and leave their childhood behind. The summer before college is a strange, stinging, magical thing. Over the course of her last summer on the island-a summer of storms, of love, of salt-Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms. When tragedy strikes, what made the Fernweh women special suddenly casts them in suspicion. No one questions the (allegedly) three-hundred-year-old bird who comes to roost on the island every year. No one questions the weather, as moody and erratic as a summer storm. No one on the island of By-the-Sea would ever call the Fernwehs what they really are, but if you need the odd bit of help-say, a sleeping aid concocted by moonlight-they are the ones to ask. But with their eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina fears her gift will never come.Īn island where strange things happen. Her twin sister, Mary, already shows an ability to defy gravity. Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience for the tingle of magic in her fingers-magic that has been passed down through every woman in her family. Katrina Leno’s Summer of Salt is a glimpse into a fascinating world reminiscent of ‘Practical Magic’, bittersweet and melodic in equal turns.Ī magic passed down through generations.
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