The Taste of Salt

Despite their difference in education they married and had two children, but Ray's failure to become a writer eventually took a toll on him and he gradually became an alcoholic.

In the final section of the book Tick finds his way to Woods Hole, Massachusetts where Josie lives.

Josie and her husband Daniel take Tick in but he is unwilling to go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and the relationship between brother and sister becomes strained.

While both her marriage and her relationship with her lover Ben are over, and her brother is dead, Josie is able to reconnect with her father, Ray.

The Taste of Salt received mixed reviews with some calling it "minor-key melancholy,"[1] " a minor contribution,"[2] and lacking "the depth you might expect from an author like Southgate.