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Necessary Salt by Joy Sullivan

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What it means to be a woman in the world making slow, chewy art

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About Joy Sullivan

Poet, educator, and author of the national bestseller, Instructions for Traveling West (Penguin Random House).

Founder of writing community, Sustenance.

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