Of Women and Salt

Gabriela Garcia

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

A best book of 2021 according to The Boston Globe, Good Housekeeping, She Reads and more

A daughter’s fateful choice, a mother’s complicated past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born.

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 beauty. Roxane Gay
Following three generations of Cuban women from Mexico to Miami . . . A sweeping tour de force about addiction, displacement, and the legacy of trauma. Harper’s Bazaar
A stunningly accomplished first novel . . . both epic and intimate. O Magazine
A mesmerizing patchwork of determination, courage and survival. The Washington Post