Salt of the Earth

"...[T]he characters in 'Salt of the Earth' are clearly doomed. So why would a reader subject himself to their suffering? You do so because, although the cards are stacked against them, Joe and Elaine are appealingly gritty people who keep trying to bounce back whenever they get knocked down. And you keep reading out of a sense of pity and fear: pity because the Geres finally suffer the most undeserved misfortune possible, and fear because what happens to them could too easily befall anyone."Olsen, Jack is the author of 'Salt of the Earth' with ISBN 9780312959982 and ISBN 0312959982.