The Empress of Salt and Fortune

This small book packs a lot into it's 118 pages. The story unfolds the way a mystery does, reads like a fantasy book, and contains the lyrical prose of contemporary fiction. I really enjoyed how the story was told; an old woman to a younger person whose job it is to collect stories and histories.

I didn't read this digitally, so here are some quotes I tabbed:

“You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small.”

“Sometimes the things we see do not make sense until many years have gone by. Sometimes it takes generations. We are taught to be content with that.”

“Being close to her was like being warmed by a bonfire, and I had been cold for a long time.”

“The Abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind.”

“Submission but only to the truth.”

“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves. I am not worried for her in the least.”