Of Women and Salt

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER of the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Award,She Reads Best of 2021 Awards ΓÇó FINALIST for the 2022 Southern Book Prize ΓÇó LONGLISTED for CrookΓÇÖs Corner Book Prize ΓÇó NOMINEE for 2021 Goodreads Choice Award in Debut Novel and Historical Fiction A sweepingmasterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choicea mother motivated by her own pastand a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day MiamiJeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmena Cuban immigrantshe 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. Carmenstill wrestling with the trauma of displacementmust process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understandingJeanette 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 centersfrom Cuba to MexicoGabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayalsΓÇöpersonal and politicalself-inflicted and those done by othersΓÇöthat have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothersthe legacy of the memories they carryand the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence themthis is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of AmericaΓÇÖs most tangledhonesthuman roots.