{"product_id":"bread-and-salt-stories-paperback","title":"Bread and Salt: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eValerie Miner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamily, friends, and strangers reveal their shared vulnerabilities when connecting and parting in this short story collection from an award-winning author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLambda Literary Award finalist Valerie Miner's \u003ci\u003eBread and Salt\u003c\/i\u003e features sixteen stories that explore people's relationships, those that are nurtured to last, others that are lost to time, and spontaneous meetings that change one's perspective in unexpected, enlightening ways. These stories take readers across the United States and to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cancer survivor finds a home--and a family--in a Mediterranean villa whose occupants share their appreciation for delicious cuisine, multicultural artistry, and the mystery of love in \"Il Piccolo Tesoro.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone's watching over the welfare of a widowed postal worker, restoring her faith in life after tragedy in \"Quiet as the Moon.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommuters become a community when an \"Incident on the Tracks\" gives a trio of travelers an opportunity to open up about their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Women at Coral Villas\" strike up a friendship while vacationing in Indonesia despite differences in age, culture, and experience as they struggle to communicate with and understand one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA visit to Tunisia brings back decades-old memories of a woman's lost love. But her desire to find him is complicated when she finds herself questioning his involvement in a bombing in \"Bread and Salt.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether traveling internationally or staying close to home, remembering the past or considering the future, reconciling with family or meeting someone new, the characters in Valerie Miner's stories come into each other's orbit under circumstances both wondrous and tragic, and their reactions are exceptionally human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Miner deftly transports her characters--and the reader--across myriad emotional, political, and geographical terrains, leaving us breathless. A marvel of a collection.\" --Patricia Powell, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pagoda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including novels, short fiction collections, and nonfiction. Miner's work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalmagundi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. Her stories and essays have been published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Dutch. She has won fellowships and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, Fundación Valparaiso, the Australia Council Literary Arts Board, and numerous other organizations. She has received Fulbright fellowships to Tunisia, India, and Indonesia. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. Her website is www.valerieminer.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923666796851,"sku":"9798337208251","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/7KcDKoOtox9798337208251.webp?v=1793825505","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/bread-and-salt-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}