Join us to discuss "Of Women and Salt" by Gabriela Garcia. Copies of this book will be available at the Duncan Falls /Philo Branch or at another location by request.
\nBook Synopsis:
\nIn present-day Miami\, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of C armen\, a Cuban immigrant\, she is determined to learn more about her fami ly history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE.
\nCarmen\, still wrestl ing with the trauma of displacement\, must process her difficult relations hip with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfas t in her quest for understanding\, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her gra ndmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.
\nFrom 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers\, from Cuba to Mexico\, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic po rtrait of betrayals--personal and political\, self-inflicted and those don e by others--that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A ha unting meditation on the choices of mothers\, the legacy of the memories t hey carry\, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories des pite 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.
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