SALT OF THE EARTH

Tunica, Mississippi. 1933.

The banks are empty. The fields are dry. And hunger hangs heavier than the Delta heat.

In the leanest year of the Great Depression, two tenant farmers—one black, one white—work side by side on land that will never be theirs. With wives who keep hope alive through grit and prayer, and children who don’t yet know the world is meant to divide them, these two families find themselves bound by more than debt or circumstance. They share the same dirt underfoot, the same ache in their bellies, the same quiet prayers whispered at dusk.

Salt of the Earth is a story of quiet resistance—not against men or systems, but against despair. A testament to what remains when bitterness fails to take root. In a world that draws lines, these families erase them, one harvest at a time.

Romer Shaw returns to Tunica with a story not of power, but of people—a story where decency endures, and dignity rises from the dust.

*Salt of the Earth and In for a Penny are companion novellas*

ISBN: 979-8-9897952-4-6, 112 pages (novella)