Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
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Book Overview A life-affirming memoir about resilience, language, and the healing power of our ancestor's music, stories, and recipes.Samantha's mother...
A life-affirming memoir about resilience, language, and the healing power of our ancestor's music, stories, and recipes.
Samantha's mother tongue is dying out. The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that's now on the verge of extinction.
The realization that she won't be able to tell her son he's "living in the days of the aubergines" or "chopping onions on my heart" or reminding him to "always carry salt" opens the floodgates. The questions keep coming. How can she pass on this heritage without passing on the trauma of displacement? Will her son ever love mango pickle?
In her search for answers Samantha encounters demon bowls, the perils of kohl, and the unexpected joys of fusion food. Her journey transports us from the clamour of Noah's Ark to the calm of the British Museum, from the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages to the banks of the River Tigris. As Samantha considers what we lose and keep, she also asks what we might need to let go of to preserve our culture and ourselves.
Always Carry Salt is an immersive and moving meditation on the words and traditions that shape us and what we carry forward into future generations.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: PEGASUS BOOKS | ISBN: 9798897100
FormatHardcover
ISBN9798897100
EAN9798897100286
PublisherPEGASUS BOOKS
Publication Date2026-01-06
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight0.95 Pounds
Length9.1 Inches
Width6.2 Inches
Height1.0 Inches
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