Of Women and Salt

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A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born.

In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.

From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals--personal and political, self-inflicted and those …

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  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2021-04-18
  • New York Times bestseller
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Cuban americans, fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Mothers and daughters, fiction
  • Fiction, family life, general
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Fiction
  • Cuban American women
  • Immigrants
  • Family relationships
  • Family secrets
  • Mères et filles
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Américaines d'origine cubaine
  • Secrets de famille
  • Mother-daughter relationship