Catalog · No. S04 of 9
Layout specimen. This title is not on the publishing record, has no ISBN, and is not offered for rights or sale.
No. S04
Salt on the Sill
Jane A. Doe
Plate
Layout sample
Salt on the Sill
The house was ordinary. The precaution was not.
Novel · Domestic uncanny · Literary fiction
Not on the record · layout specimen
The book
After her sister stops visiting, Maren begins a precaution the sister taught her and never explained. Salt on every sill. A chair left pulled out. The porch light on until morning, though the street is not the kind of street that requires it.
The neighbors decide she is grieving badly. Maren lets them. The precaution is working, which is the part she cannot put in a sentence a neighbor would believe.
Who is in it
Spoiler-safe · drawn from the public pages
Maren
The one who keeps the salt
Precise about groceries and vague about her sister. Works the early shift at the bakery and comes home while the street is still deciding whether to be day.
Mrs. Pell
Next door
Watches the porch light and means well. Offers casseroles and, eventually, the question Maren has been refusing.
sill (n.)
The ledge at the bottom of a window. In this book, also a border someone is maintaining by hand.