Of women and salt / Gabriela Garcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garcia, Gabriela, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Immigrants--Family relationships.

Immigrants.

Cuban American women.

Cuban American women--Fiction.

Immigrants--Family relationships--Fiction.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021.

Summary:

"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. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. 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. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. 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, 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. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots"-- Provided by publisher.

Present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. 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. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Dance not beyond the distant mountain

2. Everything is holding you now

3. An encyclopedia of birds

4. Harder girl

5. Find your way home

6. Prey

7. Privilegio

8. They like the grimy

9. People like that

10. That bombs would rain

11. Other girl

12. More than we think.

Notes:

"Good Morning America book club" -- book jacket.

ISBN:

9781250776686

1250776686

OCLC:

1151060023