The Price of Salt, or Carol Coming of Age Thrown together against their will

Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer Night's Dream

but can't help fantasizing about her

Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018

and dreaming

acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s

The Price of Salt, or Carol Coming of Age Thrown together against their willPatricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic. Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of Salt (or Carol) tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department store day job,