The New York Times Bestseller 'Extraordinary . . . stunning' -
Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory 'Vivid details,
visceral prose and strong willful women' - Angie Cruz, author of
Dominicana 'Vivid, engrossing, luminous' - Sharlene Teo, author of
Ponti 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.
For fans of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins and Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo.
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