Flour & Salt

By Florence Virginia Stephenson

Ester thought her life would be different. She was going to be a poet in the city, not a baker's apprentice in a sleepy rural town where potholes and sheep are the only cause of traffic.

A college dropout evicted by her hyper critical mother, Ester finds herself at the mercy of kind strangers and a foul tempered baker. Ester is the new apprentice at The Moriah Bread Company, in the middle of a rural, upstate New York town on a busy trucking route. Paid in pastries, lodging, and criticism, Ester begins to pick up the pieces, one recipe at a time and rekindles the dream she has of being more.

Flour & Salt takes us through four seasons of family, fallibility, and flakey pastry. It is a story of self discovery after the devastation of a first dream lost and the inevitable course correction that fate demands.

Florence Virginia Stephenson is a designer & writer. Raised in the rural Northeast Kingdom, taught in the vibrant city of Chicago and toasted on the warm beaches of San Diego, she now resides on a floating home in the Pacific Northwest with aggressively friendly ducks and her big-hearted engineer. Flour & Salt is her debut novel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C2S1VPYB
• ISBN13: 9798218164409
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Floating Log Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"