500 Great Books By Women discussion

Why Is There Salt in the Sea?, Brigitte Schwaiger, translated from German by Sieglinde Lug, 1977, Austria, NOVEL

"...Stuck in a marriage she doesn't want, the narrator observes her life in an almost deadpan stream-of-consciousness critique of patriarchy that is often painful and often humorous. Amidst ongoing commentary by her father, mother, husband, and lover concerning her stupidity and lack of preparedness for the real world, are her uncensored internal philosophical inquiries about the nature of men, or beautiful, provocative musings on her surroundings..."

(E.B., p. 366)