Moving backwards and forwards in time, Of Women and Salt is the story of five generations of women that shifts between a vivid, lush Cuba on the brink of political upheaval, and the different parts of America the family call home years later.
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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