'Extraordinary . . . stunning' - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The
Doll Factory 'Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful
women' - Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana Five generations of
women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share,
and by a single book passed down through a family, with an
affirmation scrawled in its margins: We are force. We are more than
we think we are. 1866, Cuba: Maria Isabel is the only woman
employed at a cigar factory, where each day the workers find
strength in daily readings of Victor Hugo. But these are dangerous
political times, and as Maria begins to see marriage and motherhood
as her only options, the sounds of war are approaching. 1959, Cuba:
Dolores watches her husband make for the mountains in answer to
Fidel Castro's call to arms. What Dolores knows, though, is that to
survive, she must win her own war, and commit an act of violence
that threatens to destroy her daughter Carmen's world. 2016, Miami:
Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, is shocked
when her daughter Jeanette announces her plans to travel to Cuba to
see her grandmother Dolores. In the walls of her crumbling home
lies a secret, one that will link Jeanette to her past, and to this
fearless line of women. From nineteenth-century cigar factories to
present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to
Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of
fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them. It is a
haunting meditation on the choices of mothers and the tenacity of
women who choose to tell their truth despite those who wish to
silence them.
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