EAN: 9781529031553

GABRIELA GARCIA - GEBRAUCHT OF WOMEN AND SALT G...

?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: María 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 María 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.

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