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 were born.
Gabriela Garcia is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is the daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Cuba and grew up in Miami. Of Women and Salt is her first novel.
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, author of Bad
Feminist
A fierce and powerful debut. Garcia wields narrative power,
cultivating true and profound work on migration, legacy, and
survival -- Terese Marie Mailhot, bestselling author of Heart
Berries
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