Synopsis
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.
‘Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women’ – Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana
Five generations of women are linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets...
Details
03 February 2022224 pages
9781529031553Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Gabriela Garcia captures the lives of Cuban women in a world to which they refuse to surrender and she does so with precision and generosity and beautyRoxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
I am a sucker for intergenerational family dramas and fraught mother and daughter relationships. Garcia's vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women negotiating how to survive in this world are easy to fall forAngie Cruz, author of Dominicana
Extraordinary . . . A book that made me fall in love with reading again . . . A stunning hymn to the strength of mothers . . . I cannot stop thinking about itElizabeth Macneal, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory
I devoured it, and in return it swallowed me whole into the lives of women whose decisions mould and make each other. It’s about mothers & daughters - fierce love and the terror that comes with it. How we save each other. How we save ourselves.Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
