The Climb from Salt Lick: A Memoir of Appalachia

By Nancy L. Abrams

In the mid-1970s, Nancy L. Abrams, a young photojournalist from the Midwest, plunges into life as a small-town reporter in West Virginia. She befriends the hippies on the commune one mountaintop over, rents a cabin in beautiful Salt Lick Valley, and falls in love with a local boy, wrestling to balance the demands of a job and a personal life. She learns how to survive in Appalachia--how to heat with coal and wood, how to chop kindling, plant a garden, and preserve produce.
The Climb from Salt Lick is the remarkable memoir of an outsider coming into adulthood. It is the story of a unique place and its people from the perspective of a woman who documents its burdens and its beauty, using words and pictures to tell the rich stories of those around her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194668418X
• ISBN13: 9781946684189
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"