The Book of Salt Novel by Monique TruongPremium off white Cream Pages Stitched Binding Matte Cover Local Premium Copy Dimensions 5. 5 x 8. 26 inches Language English Pages Amount 245 Summary : Monique Truong's 2003 novel, The Book of Salt, is a work of historical and biographical fiction told from the perspective of Bnh, a gay Vietnamese man working as a cook in the Parisian home of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the 1930s. On the day his employers, whom he calls "Mesdames," are