Saltcrop // A Novel

From the acclaimed author ofThe Stardust Grailcomes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sisterand Earths environmental salvation.

In Earth’s not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother.

But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to findand saveher. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister’s work and the corporations that want what she discovered.

But the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sisteror each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster.

Yume Kitaseiis the author ofSaltcrop,The Stardust Grail, andThe Deep Sky. She is Japanese and American and grew up in a space between two culturesthe same space where her stories reside. She lives in Brooklyn with two cats, Boondoggle and Filibuster.

• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Publish Date: September 30, 2025
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9781250380968
• Dimensions: 245.1 X 6.5 X 1.2 inches | 1.3 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Science Fiction, Popular Fiction