Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals?personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others?that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Download a free excerpt from Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia, the debut novel that is being called "fierce and powerful" (Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries).In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction.
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