Flour & Salt
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…
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“
If I were a garden
I’d be one with many weeds”
About the book
A college dropout evicted by her 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, a bakery plopped 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 of her life, one recipe at a time and rekindles the dreams she once had of becoming more.
Flour & Salt takes us through four seasons of family, fallibility, and flaky pastry. It is a story of self discovery after the devastation of a first dream lost and the inevitable course correction that fate demands.
Debut Novel??
From the moment I picked up this book with its beautifully illustrated cover to reading the first page I thought there must be more books under Ms. Stephensons name.
Poetic, vivid life is painted with every sentence. She makes a world that is alive and immersive and the characters stick around and make me wonder .
I want to read this book over and over again, Savoring it like good bread.-Amazon review
About the Author
Florence Virginia Stephenson is a designer and fiction writer. Raised in the rural Northeast Kingdom, taught in the vibrant city of Chicago and 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.