The Salt Eaters

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The Salt Eaters

First edition
Author	Toni Cade Bambara
Language	English
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1980
ISBN	978-0-679-74076-6
OCLC	4957488

The Salt Eaters is a 1980 novel, the first such work by Toni Cade Bambara. The novel is written in an experimental style and is explicitly political in tone, with several of the characters being veterans of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It is set in the fictional town of Claybourne, Georgia.