Aug 21 2024 25 mins
On this episode we catch up with Rachelle Atalla to hear more about her latest novel The Salt Flats. A tale of many threads, it centres around Martha and Finn a couple who have come to find themselves at the end of their relationship. In a bid to save what’s left between them they travel to a mysterious retreat on the Bolivian salt flats as part of a group of privileged tourists.
There, they undergo a series of ceremonies to unlock the fears that separate them. But as each hallucinogenic episode unfolds the group fragments, falling deeper into themselves rather than closing the gap between them.
The Salt Flats is a story of shared guilt and sublimation that asks us to think again about who we share the world with and what it is we are running from.
‘The Salt Flats is gripping, compulsive and deeply human. Rachelle Atalla is one of the few writers whose novels I can’t put down.’ Heather Parry
‘Immersive, intelligent and tender.’ Kirsty Logan
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