02422cam a2200337 i 4500 497752161 TxAuBib 20210325120000.0 201022s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020047459 9781250776686 hardcover $26.99 1250776686 hardcover $26.99 TxAuBib rda Garcia, Gabriela, 1984- Of women and salt [Book] : a novel / Gabriela Garcia. First U.S. edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2021. 207 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier GMA (Good Morning America Book Club) "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. 20210325. GMA (Good Morning America) Book Club. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Cuban American women Fiction. Immigrants Family relationships Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. GMA (Good Morning America Book Club.)