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Of women and salt

Garcia, Gabriela 1984- (author.).

Summary: 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 was 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 nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, 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. 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. --

Record details

ISBN: 9781250776686
ISBN: 1250776686
ISBN: 9781250776693
Physical Description: print
207 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Good Morning America book club" -- book jacket.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: 1. Dance not beyond the distant mountain -- 2. Everything is holding you now -- 3. An encyclopedia of birds -- 4. Harder girl -- 5. Find your way home -- 6. Prey -- 7. Privilegio -- 8. They like the grimy -- 9. People like that -- 10. That bombs would rain -- 11. Other girl -- 12. More than we think.