Selected as Indie Next Great Reads for April A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story it is a story of America’s most tangled, honest, human roots.

Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.įrom 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 done by others-that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. 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. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. NOMINEE for 2021 Goodreads Choice Award in Debut Novel and Historical FictionĪ 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.LONGLISTED for Crook’s Corner Book Prize.FINALIST for the 2022 Southern Book Prize.WINNER of the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Award - International Latino Book Awards īest Literary Fiction - She Reads Best of 2021 Awards

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