Water, salt, drought, desire, geology, family, addiction, the American West.

Nicole Walker's essay collection takes subjects that might seem unrelated and reveals the invisible systems connecting them. Moving between memoir, environmental writing and cultural criticism, Walker follows the traces of water through landscapes, bodies and histories, producing essays that are curious, associative and quietly profound.

Here, a meditation on drinking water becomes a reflection on inheritance; a discussion of salt deposits opens onto questions of consumption, scarcity and survival. Walker writes with the attentiveness of an essayist who understands that infrastructure, landscape and emotion are rarely separate categories. The result is a book that feels both intimate and expansive, concerned with the ways ordinary materials shape entire lives.

Nicole Walker is an American essayist, poet and memoirist known for blending environmental concerns with personal narrative. Quench Your Thirst With Salt won the Independent Publisher Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and remains one of her most admired works.

Signed and warmly inscribed by the author. Third printing paperback published by Zone 3 Press, 2013. Presented in excellent condition.