I Read Stories: The Use Of Salt by Lynn Mundell

 

The Use Of Salt by Lynn Mundell in -ette

The salt cellar has been passed down from mother to daughter in unending chain, and now the daughter has become a mother. Her mother shows her what can be done with the salt.

And all the ancestors show what they can do with the salt, all those mothers and daughters. And where the salt comes from.

Read This: Salt as a shorthand for motherhood and domestic work
Don’t Read This: It’s the same for all the ancestors